Predecessor Lodges
Teetonkah 206

 

Teetonkah OA Lodge #206 was chartered on August 4, 1941 to the Land-O-Lakes Council and replaced the Tribe of Keokuk at that time. Teetonkah means "Big Lodge" according to a 1921 news clipping. The council was based in Jackson, Michigan and the lodge was based at Camp Tee-tonk-ah, one of America's three oldest scout camps. Camp Teetonkah was created in 1913, as was Treasure Island. Only Chicago Council's Camp Owasippe in Whitehall, Michigan (1911) is older. The founder of the lodge is believed to have been A.J. Junker who was their council executive at the time. The first lodge flap was issued around 1956. Prior to this, the lodge had issued two patches. The original patch was the Kachina Doll which was issued in early 1950 and was an odd shaped patch. There were 48 Kachina Doll patches made with about seven known to still exist. The cost was about 22 cents a piece. The Kachina Doll appears on Lodge 206 flaps in later years. The original is one of the rarest of all OA patches.