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==Council History== | ==Council History== | ||
The Mount Diablo Silverado Council (#023) was formed in 1992 as the result of a merger between the former Silverado Area Council (#038) and the former Mount Diablo Council (#023).<ref name="CSP Book">{{cite book |last1=Hook|first1=James |last2=Franck |first2=Dave|last3=Austin|first3=Steve |year=1982 |title=An Aid to Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Patches with Valuation Guide |url=http://www.angelfire.com/tx6/patch/cspbook.html}}</ref> | |||
The Mount Diablo Silverado Council can trace its history back to the Berkeley Council (#023). The Berkeley Council received its charter from the Boy Scouts of America in March 1916.<ref name="CSP Book" /><ref name="Rickles">{{cite web |url= http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/citycouncil/2005citycouncil/packet/042605/2005-04-26%20Item%2023aAttach1.pdf |title=Attachment D to Ward Hill letter |last1=Rickles |first1=Rena |date= March 7, 2005|work= |publisher= |accessdate=14 February 2013}}</ref><ref name="dobkin">{{cite book |last1=Dobkin|first1=Marjorie| year=2005|title=History of Mt. Diablo Council Boy Scouts of America |publisher=Mount Diablo Silverado Council, Boy Scouts of America (BSA) |url=| chapter = citing Lindbald, Victor. circa 1965 }}</ref><ref name="campherms">Lindbald, Victor. 1958 [http://elcerritowire.com/history/pages/CampHermsearlyhistory.pdf Some Historical Data on Camp Herms] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202150257/http://elcerritowire.com/history/pages/CampHermsearlyhistory.pdf |date=2011-02-02 }}, pp. 2–3, 8</ref> | |||
The Berkeley Council expanded to become the Berkeley-Albany Council and in 1932 merged with the Contra Costa Council to become the Berkeley-Contra Costa Council<ref name="CSP Book" /><ref name="campherms" /> which was renamed the Mount Diablo Council in 1951.<ref name="sfbac-history.org">[http://www.sfbac-history.org/SFBAC-History.html San Francisco Bay Area Council History 1964–2008]</ref> | |||
In 1916 the Berkeley Council was the first council in Northern California to receive a charter from the Boy Scouts of America National Council. The Oakland-Piedmont Council followed later in 1916.<ref>[http://www.sfbac-history.org/OAC-History.html Oakland-Piedmont Council History 1910–1921]</ref> The [[San Francisco Council]] and also the [[Alameda Council]] followed in 1917.<ref name="sfbac-history.org"/><ref>[http://www.sfbac-history.org/ San Francisco Council History 1917–1964]</ref> | |||
The Silverado Area Council was founded in 1917 as the Napa Council, changing its name to the Napa County Council in 1922, and again in 1928 to the Silverado Area Council. The Luther Burbank Council (#034) merged into Napa County in 1927.<ref name="CSP Book" /> | |||
In 2012, the Mount Diablo Silverado Council voted against a merger with the San Francisco Bay Area Council.<ref>{{cite web |title=MDSC and SFBAC Merger: Voted No |publisher=Mount Diablo Silverado Council |date=2012 |url=http://www.bsa-mdsc.org/mdsc-and-sfbac-merger-voted-no}}</ref> | |||
==Districts== | ==Districts== | ||