International Boy Scouts of the Canal Zone International Boy Scouts of the Canal Zone The Boy Scouts of the Panama Canal Zone were founded in 1947, recognized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1955, and had 970 members in 1957. The organization had ties to the Boy Scouts of the United Nations, and existed at least through the 1960s, directly registered to the World Scout Bureau. A delegation from the IBSCZ attended the 14th World Scout Jamboree in Norway in 1975. In 1937 J. S. Wilson met with Gunnar Berg and Ray Wyland of the Boy Scouts of America at Balboa, Panama, on his
First schoolhouse in Olympia, Washington when the school moved to the Central School location at Union and Washington, the old schoolhouse was used as the Thurston County courthouse. First schoolhouse in Olympia, Washington The first schoolhouse in Olympia, Washington was built in 1852. According to an 1853 newspaper, it was one of three schools north of Cowlitz Landing, Washington (i.e. in Washington Territory), and the only public school of the three. Its foundation preceded public schools in other early Puget Sound region settlements; Steilacoom, the state's first town to incorporate, was taught out of a living room when the state's first school district was created