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The Council's Camp, Camp Olmsted was purchased for the Council by George W. Olmsted. Mr. Olmsted organized the Long Island Lighting Company. Through some 50 purchases and mergers, the company grew rapidly in the next twenty years and eventually furnished electricity and gas to almost all of Long Island east of the New York City line. Mr. Olmsted had a deep love for the organization of the Boy Scouts of America and served as Chairman of the National Camping Committee of the BSA. Camp Olmsted is located on land adjacent to the few remaining acres of the Cornplanter Grant, a parcel of over 600 acres given to Chief Cornplanter in 1791 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Camp Olmsted has been in continuous operation since 1923.

The Chief Cornplanter Council's Order of the Arrow Lodge is Gyantwachia [#255<ref>http://webpages.atlanticbb.net/~wilsric/lodge255/ </ref>], first organized as part of the Warren County Council, Boy Scouts of America in 1944 as the Chief Cornplanter Lodge at Camp Olmsted. "Gyantwachia" means "one who plants corn," the Seneca name of Chief Cornplanter. The Lodge totem is the wolf.

===Chester County Council===