
- Named for Cherokee Chief, Sequoyah
- Mr. Dulaney, a Bristol businessman, traveled to London in 1910 to confer with Lord Baden-Powell
- Ben L. Dulaney of Bristol, began scouting movement in our area
- Troop 10 sponsored by First Baptist Church was formed
- Other troops were formed in Greeneville in 1912 Johnson City and Kingsport in 1916
- First Council formed in 1920 operated under name Johnson City, Tennessee Counci
- December, 1922 operated under name Appalachia Council
- 1925 name changed to Cherokee Council Rufus
- Lowe of Johnson City was employed as first full-time professional scout executive
- About same time Chief Benge Council organized in Bristol Wilbur Hammer, a former Scout of Ben Dulaney named executive
- Johnson City and Bristol merged in 1931 formed Chief Benge-Cherokee Council
- Discovered Chief Benge was a renegade Indian renamed the Sequoyah Council after wise and just Cherokee Chief
- Lonesome Pine Council in Southwest Virginia was added in February, 1979 to enlarge service area to eight counties in East Tennessee and 7 ½ in Southwest Virginia
