The first cookie sales by an individual Scout unit was by the Mistletoe Troop
in Oklahoma, in December 1917 at their local high school. In 1922, the Girl
Scout magazine The American Girl suggested cookie sales as a fund-raiser,
providing a simple cookie recipe from a regional director for the Girl Scouts
of Chicago.

Six types of cookies were being sold nationwide by 1956 and today, up to 28
varieties of Girl Scout cookies are offered. As of 2007, sales were estimated
at about 200 million boxes per year.

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1950’s

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A Ganong Bros. Candy maker, Frank Sparhawk, invented the “Chicken bone."
candy in 1885. The confection was in fact Ganong’s first signature candy for
Canada’s oldest candy company, located in the small town of St. Stephen in
Southern New Brunswick.