Gulf Ridge Council - Seminole Lodge

Seminole Lodge is an Order of the Arrow lodge associated with the Gulf Ridge Council, located in West-Central Florida. Members of the lodge belong to the Order of the Arrow, a national scouting honor society.

Chartered in 1936 while under the name Kiondashama, the lodge name was changed to Seminole by September, 1938. Seminole is the name of a Native American people whose original homelands included portions of Florida.

By 2007, the most recent year figures are available, the membership of the Seminole Lodge numbered 635.

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    In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.
    —For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    The wrinkles in my brow,
    The furrows in my face,
    Say, limping age will lodge him now
    Where youth must give him place.
    Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)