Narragansett Council is based in Cranston, Rhode Island, and has 4 service areas that serve communities in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut:. Mulhearn on August 29, , with the meeting of an executive committee.
At a September 8, executive committee meeting, the organization selected its first officers. RIBS kept its corporate identity after the merger allowing it to continue receiving bequests, funds, and properties. The Wampanoag District served Somerset and Swansea. The Massasoit Council existed until These recognition events were held at White's in Westport. It was decided in at a Fall River Council Executive Board meeting that the purchase of a acre 0.
Additional land was purchased in Camp Noquochoke's later years covering over acres 0. Camp site facilities ranged from undeveloped, to tent sites with platforms, to A-frames "Adirondacks" to cabins with stoves and bunk beds. The physical facilities were significantly improved in the late s with a new dining hall constructed by Fall River Building Trades Council with site work provided by the Navy Seabees Reservists and an in-ground pool. The Navy Seabee Reservists did upgrade the camp road from the entrance on Pine Hill Road to its termination by the former or old dining hall ending at the river's bluff.
The Seabees also did the site work for the new dining hall, dugout the archery range and may have partially or completely built the rifle range on the newly acquired Donovan property. This work done by the Seabees was part of their community service, especially non-profit agencies. Camp legend, the basis for many campfire stories, was a character named "Three-fingered Willie. On May 13, , as part of complying with new rules of incorporation for Boy Scout councils in Massachusetts, the New Bedford Council changed its name to the Cachalot Council.
The name, derived from the French and Portuguese words for sperm whale, was proposed by Joe Allen, of the [Martha's] Vineyard Gazette, in January to honor the history of whaling in New Bedford. At the time, the Council did own a property that was used as a camp. This property, off Rock O' Dundee Road in South Dartmouth [2], was too small and lacked adequate water sources, both for drinking and swimming.
