In 1928, the Girl Scout Council received a deed to approximately 27 acres of land on the little Sequatchie River in Marion County from Mr. & Mrs. Glancy Sherman to hold a summer camp. Camp Glancy, located about 30 miles from Chattanooga, operated successfully from 1929 through 1942. Faced with the need and expense for improvements on the site and the inability to buy adjoining acreage, the Council decided in 1941 to look for a new site.

Buildings and equipment were purchased through donations from interested friends, the cookie sale, pledges from troops, and many businesses.



The cost for one week’s board at Camp Glancy was $7 plus a $1 registration fee. A green camp suit (middy and bloomer) was required at a cost of $1.50.



Miss Frances King, local director of the Chattanooga Girl Scouts, served as the Camp Director under the direction of Girl Scout Commissioner Alice W. Milton

During the early ‘60s, the Board of Directors of the Chattanooga Girl Scouts began looking for a permanent location for a camp closer to Chattanooga. They had wanted a location on Lake Chickamauga, but this was not suitable because of the lack of privacy from the public shoreline. Privacy is necessary, Jean Biddle said, “because we’ve got to protect all those little girls. We don’t want strangers wandering in. On the lake anyone could pull a boat up there. There was no way to protect the kids.”



As the search went on for a large enough acreage for the camp, two members of the Board of Directors, sisters Dee Parker and LaVonne Jolley, asked if the Board would like to look at some property their father, Horace Collins, owned.



After one visit, the Board agreed to buy the 550-acre tract. Since then more acreage has been added to the current 900+ acres. The initial cost to construct the camp was $350,000. The money then, and for operating the camp each summer now, came from the sale of Girl Scout cookies. It was estimated that 106,358 boxes of cookies were sold to pay for building the camp.



Camp Adahi received accreditation by the American Camping Association in 1993. This nationally recognized program focuses on program quality and health and safety issues and requires that we review every facet of our operation. Camp Adahi has been evaluated by camp experts and has earned this mark of distinction.