The Middle Tennessee Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America in Tennessee, with headquarters in Nashville. It serves 37 Middle Tennessee counties and Fort Campbell, Kentucky. History The Nashville Council was founded in 1920 and was renamed the Nashville Area Council in 1929. In 1927 the Davy Crockett Council was created and eventually merged with the Nashville Area Council. The Nashville Area Council was renamed the Middle Tennessee Council in 1949. In 1921, the Middle Tennessee Council's first summer camp was held at the original Boxwell Reservation, near Linton and is now lost to history. Nine years later, camp was held at a facility called as the Narrows of the Harpeth. In the 1950s and early 1960s, this camp was operated for African American troops. The camp was eventually sold to the state of Tennessee in the 1980s. In 1950, another Boxwell opened near Rock Island (between McMinnville and Sparta that was operated from 1950 through 1959 and is still being maintained as the Charles E. Parish Wilderness Reservation. In 1959, the current Boxwell opened on Old Hickory Lake near Lebanon, TN. Organization The council is divided into thirteen districts: Bledsoe Creek, consisting of Robertson and Sumner counties Caney Fork District, consisting of Clay, Dekalb, Jackson, Overton, Putnam, Van Buren, Warren and White Counties Centennial District, consisting of Northern Davidson County Cogioba District, consisting of Houston, Montgomery and Stewart Counties and Fort Campbell, KY Cumberland River District, consisting of Macon, Smith, Trousdale, Wilson Counties Elk River District, consisting of Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Lincoln and Moore Counties Frontier District, consisting of Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury, Perry and Wayne Counties Highland Rim District, consisting of Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman and Humphreys Counties James E. West District, consisting of Southwest Davidson County Natchez Trace District, consisting of Williamson County Percy Priest District, consisting of Southeast Davidson County STEM District, Council wide Trail of Tears District, consisting of Rutherford and Cannon Counties On August 19th, 2020, the council hosted a District Alignment Study live webinar. If the proposed changes are voted on by the Council Executive Board, the number of district realignment will be official on January 1, 2021, with 13 districts. Camps Boxwell Reservation is a summer camp owned and operated by the Middle Tennessee Council. The camp is located outside Lebanon, Tennessee, on the shores of Old Hickory Lake. and is home to Camp Craig, Camp Stahlman, Camp