GULF-HILLS COUNCIL        1927 to 1930                           (Dade City)

separated from Tampa Bay Area Council 1927
dispersed into Tampa Bay Area Council, Ocklawaha Council 1930

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In February 1927, a new council was organized with the units in eastern Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando, Citrus, and Sumter Counties, to become Gulf-Ridge Council.  This area was carved from the northern areas of the Tampa Bay Area Council, and established its headquarters in Dade City.  Despite the separation, there were still joint activities with the two councils, including a camping experience in May 1927 for the newly-formed “Cubs Division”, for boys too young to join regular troops.  The official summer camp in 1927 was located at “Twin Lakes” (also called “Twin Islands”) near Inverness, on the Withlacoochee River; this site was open for three weeks in that summer.  In 1927 and 1928, Gulf-Hills opened a second camp for Scouts in the southern end of the council, located at Sunset Beach on Lake Pasadena, on a property owned by the Farmers’ Club of Pasadena.  These were run on consecutive periods and not simultaneously; Council Executive Major Reed was the camp director, and his wife served as the head cook, for both locations.  By August 1929, Major Reed had resigned his position, to take a job with the Tampa School Department, and was replaced with a volunteer assistant council commissioner.  By 1930, there was no further information found about the council.  The areas in the southern area of the former council appear to have returned to Tampa Bay Area Council, while Hernando, Pasco, and Sumter counties were supervised by Ocklawaha Council, into the mid-1930s.