Scout Island is a forested bar island in Marion County, West Virginia on the Tygart Valley River.
Scout Island was used by a Troop as their personal camp in the 1940s and 50s. Since then it is visited by scouts with permission of the current owner. A pavilion and campsites can still be seen.
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Famous quotes containing the words scout and/or island:
“Simone Clouseau: Jacques would make a wonderful father. He has many redeeming qualities, you know.
Sir Charles: Name one.
Simone Clouseau: Oh, he’s kind, loyal, faithful, obedient.
Sir Charles: You’re either married to a boy scout or a dachshund.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)