History
The American Boy Scouts of Rhode Island was founded by Charles E. Mulhearn on August 29, 1910 with the meeting of an executive committee. The next day, the committee requested a charter from the New England Department Headquarters of the American Boy Scouts. At a September 8, 1910 executive committee meeting, the organization selected its first officers. On March 12, 1911, the organization voted to break away from the American Boy Scouts and was renamed as the Rhode Island Boy Scouts. The State issued a state charter to the RIBS as a state institution.
In 1917 RIBS merged with the BSA with the BSA granting all members of RIBS back service.
RIBS kept its corporate identity after the merger allowing it to continue receiving bequests, funds, and properties, creating the RIBS trustee organization. The trustee organization exists today and owns much of the properties and camps operated by the Narragansett Council. This excludes Camp Cachalot which the council owns outright as a result of a merger with the former Moby Dick Council in Massachusetts.
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