Girl Scout Cookies

Girl Scout Cookies is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, dedicated 2001.

Philadelphia County · dedicated 2001 · 1401 Arch St., Philadelphia

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On November 11, 1932, Girl Scouts baked & sold cookies for the first time in the windows of the Philadelphia Gas & Electric Co. here. This endeavor soon became a Philadelphia tradition. In 1936 the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. adopted the annual cookie sale as a national program.

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