Blazing trails for more than a century.
Girl Scouts have always been leaders, in Central Texas and across the nation.
The Girl Scout movement was founded in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low in Savanah, Georgia, and spread across the country. Emerging in Central Texas just nine years after the organization’s foundation, Girl Scouts became deeply woven into the social fabric of their communities, leading service projects to make their hometowns better places to live, while igniting in girls their sense that they could do anything.
Today’s Girl Scouts continue to blaze trails as community helpers,
leaders, and agents of change.
Austin Girl Scout Troop 1 was formed in 1921, organized by Mrs. Minter.
The first all-Black Girl Scout troop west of the Mississippi was
established in Austin in 1936. Pictured is the first African American
Girl Scout troop, cira 1930.
1920s 
1930s
The first group of Austin Girl Scout hospital nurse aides graduated
after four months of training in April 1944, starting their service at
St. David’s Hospital.
Girl Scouts received Silver Wing Merit Badges at Goodfellow Air Force
Base in 1951, having completed a six-hour course in aviation.
1940s
1950s
Girl Scout camp counselor Sharon Wheat and camper Martha Wyche practiced
archery at Bluebonnet Shores Girl Scout Camp (formerly known as Camp Kachina).
Girl Scouts went door-to-door selling boxes of cookies in 1974.
1960s
1970s
Girl Scout Daisies led a science experiment as part of Girl Scouts’
council-wide launch of STEM-based programming.
Girl Scouts try out different activities, including STEM experiments, at
a 1990 “Girl Scouts on Parade” event.
1980s
1990s
Girl Scout and mom of Girl Scouts Beyond Bars, a newly launched program
created to break the cycle of multi-generational incarceration.
Girl Scout Daisies getting a hands-on robotics demo from The Lady Cans
robotics team.
2000s
2010s
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