A Boy Scout historian in Barre, Vt., is leading an effort to complete a piece of art commissioned more than seven decades ago honoring one of the nation’s first Boy Scout troops, writes Wilson Ring for the Associated Press.

The granite statue of a scout carrying a person on his shoulders was incomplete at the time of artist Carlo Abate’s death in 1941.

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What became Barre’s Boy Scout Troop 1 began in the fall of 1909 when a group of boys from the First Baptist Church were asked by Scottish immigrant William Foster Milne if they wanted to become Scouts.

Although Barre recognizes those boys as the first Boy Scout troop in the country, there are at least two other locations, one of which is Bala Cynwyd, that also claim to be the home of the first U.S. Boy Scout troop.

Troop Bala One was started by Frank H. Sykes in Bala Cynwyd in 1908, prior to the founding of the Boy Scouts of America.

Click here to read more about Barre’s claim to be the home of America’s first Boy Scout troop from the Associated Press.

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