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Salmon matching. Woodcraft Boys engage in a water sports game known as “salmon matching,” ca. 1905 at Seton’s Woodcraft estate, Wyndygoul, in Connecticut. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Forerunners to the Boy Scouts, the First Woodcraft Tribe was established at Windygoul estate at Cos Cob, Connecticut, in 1902. Seton's property had been vandalized by a group of boys from the local school. Rather than prosecuting them, he invited them to the property, and their meetings soon developed into the Woodcraft League of America. In 1910, Seton served as founding chairman of the Boy Scouts of America.
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