text: Troop 1 of Big Spring received its first charter dated September 30, 1911 and had been registered every year until 1989 with the Boy Scouts of America.  The Troop resumed activity in 1993 and is still active today.  This Big Spring troop lays claim to being the oldest continuously chartered unit west of the Mississippi.  The first Scoutmaster in Texas to be registered with the BSA was Rev. George W. Sheafor, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Comanche, Texas in 1910, but that troop did not last more than a couple of years.  We have no way of knowing whether or not the Big Spring troop is the "oldest continuously chartered units west of the Mississippi" as the BSA do not keep records on such.  But they were one of the first troops to be organized and chartered in Texas. \n \nTroop 258 in Corsicana claims to be the oldest chartered with a date of 1915\nThe BSA list Troops as CONTINUOUS meaning no droppping from the national roster.\n\nIt can be noted though that there were troop started in 1910 but not registered or Chartered