Massasoit District
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The Massasoit District is a subdivision of the Narragansett Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
History
Massasoit Council existed until 1972. It was headquartered in Fall River, Massachusetts and served that city and the surrounding communities. Smaller councils began to be consolidated, which led to Massasoit Council merging with the Cachalot Council (see Cachalot District) to form the Moby Dick Council. In this new council, the two former councils became districts. Moby Dick Council maintained the Cachalot Council's office in New Bedford. Massasoit's Camp Noquochoke was sold, and Cachalot's Camp Cachalot remained with the new council.
Massasoit Council's Noquochoke Lodge 124 of the Order of the Arrow merged with Cachalot Council's Agawam Lodge 509 to form Neemat Lodge 124.
In 2001, another merger was announced. Moby Dick Council, which by contemporary standards at its inception was of decent size, had become archaic. It was considered in their best interest to dissolve and merge with another council, and they did so, merging with Rhode Island's Narragansett Council. The new council, which kept the Narragansett name, kept the Massasoit and Cachalot district designations, and also continues to operate Camp Cachalot.
Troops
- Troop 1
Seekonk, Massachusetts - Troop 16
Swansea, Massachusetts - Troop 164
Assonet, Massachusetts