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By Britt Brinson

The Chase S. Osborn Scout Reservation in Worth County, commonly known as Camp Osborn, held its annual workday on Saturday, August 24, 2024.  Several groups of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and adult Scouters participated in the event.  The Camp Osborn Work Day is held each year to ready the camp for the upcoming camping season.

While the contingent from Cordele Boy Scout Troop 270 trimmed the grass and weeds at the Eagle Chapel and painted benches there and the fence at the Fire Bowl, other groups cleaned up the Administration Building and shower houses.  Still others trimmed weeds at the Fire Bowl or mowed grass.

According to the book, The History of Scouting in South Georgia, by Judge J. Michael Greene of Americus, Camp Osborn opened in June 1943, on land donated by Mr. Osborn, a former governor of Michigan, who had a winter cabin in Poulan, Georgia.  In a ceremony at his cabin, called Possum Poke, Governor Osborn presented the deed for Camp Osborn to Cordele’s Gene Espy, Crisp County’s first Eagle Scout.  Espy was a member of Cordele Boy Scout Troop 40.

Troop 270 Scouts who helped with the project were Senior Patrol Leader Simon Baker, Jake Atkins, and Landon Atkins.  Adult Scouters who helped were Scoutmaster John Frost, Assistant Scoutmaster Britt Brinson, Troop Committee Chair Terry Fennell, and Troop Committee Members Brady Atkins and Gene Baker.

Cordele Boy Scout Troop 270 is chartered by the Cordele Kiwanis Club.  The Troop meets each Monday evening, 6:30-8:00 pm, at the Historic Cordele Boy Scout Hut.  If you know a boy, ages 11-17, who might like to “Live Scouting’s Adventure” or would benefit from leadership and service opportunities through the Scouting program, please bring them by the Hut on any Monday evening.