Welcome to the Lone Scout Foundation

We are proud of our foundation and we hope that all who would like to come to visit would make it a priority. If you would like to visit, please contact those persons listed elsewhere in this Web site.

The W. D. Boyce Building under construction. This photo does not show the Indian Room Addition. Now known as the Lone Scout Memory Lodge

The Lone Scout Foundation itself was established to administer the maintenance and legal requirements of the W. D. Boyce building when it was completed. The trustees established bank accounts and other requirement associated with maintaining a museum and archives for the Lone Scouting History.

The trustees appointed three curators to see to it that all donated memorabilia and artifacts were displayed with dignity and archived through proper record keeping.

Lone Scout Memory Lodge today. Indian Room at far left.

The Lone Scout Foundation is a non-profit organization. In legal terms it is a 501(c).3 organization. It was established in 1970 when the William D. Boyce Building was dedicated. The building is the home of Lone Scout Memory Lodge and is currently what old-time Lone Scouts would have called the Long House, reminiscent of Native American meeting lodges. Lone Scouts who were members of the Lone Scouts of America (L.S.A.), it was the lodge where Chief Totem W. D. Boyce was located and the place where Lone Scout magazine was published.

The old-time Lone Scouts who started the effort to build a lodge where their memorabilia could be displayed were members of the Catawba and Beaver Tribes located in the piedmont North Carolina area. These old-time Lone Scouts had joined with each other for the benefit of reminiscing about the L.S.A. and their part in it before and after the L.S.A. merged with the B.S.A.

In planning for their lodge, it was apparent that it would take much more money to realize its completion than could be raised in the two tribes. The local Boy Scout Council, the Central North Carolina Council, headquartered in Albemarle, North Carolina, offered a plot of ground upon which to build the lodge on the Cannon Scout Reservation at Camp John J. Barnhardt, near New London, North Carolina. The site was accepted.

The Catawba and Beaver Tribe members decided to make a proposal to the membership of the Elbeetian Legion at Indian Rocks, Florida. The Elbeetian Legion (LBT) was a worldwide, loosely organized group of old-time Lone Scouts under the leadership of Charles Merlin. The proposal was made, accepted and soon thereafter construction began.

Enjoy your visit here on the site and if you can't stay long, please add a bookmark to your browser so that you might come back soon and enjoy a longer stay. This is the only Web site solely dedicated to telling the story of the Lone Scouts of America and in promoting the use of the Lone Scout program in today's Scouting experience. We do this in order that those youth who need the program will be able to join Scouting and enjoy the fellowship of other Scouts, increase their awareness of the Scouting Spirit and become better citizens in our towns, counties, states and the nation.

Thank you for making this visit and we hope you will join in our effort to preserve and promote Lone Scouting.

You can make donations to help finance the foundation by sending a check to Lone Scout Foundation, 57 Confederate Way, Stafford, Virginia 22554-5175. All monies are used strictly for the upkeep and maintenance of Lone Scout Memory Lodge. The trustees receive no remuneration whatsoever.