First Lady Bess Truman opens the 1951 Girl Scout cookie sale by accepting the first box of cookies at Blair House in 1951. (Getty Images / Bettmann Archive) “Over the next several decades ...

Fans of Girl Scout Cookies can support Girl Scouting by purchasing cookies for $6 a box in a few different ways: (This story was updated to add a video.) More: Former Staunton School Board chair ...

According to the Girl Scouts of the USA, the very first Girl Scout Cookie fundraiser took place in 1917, in Muskogee, Oklahoma when the Girl Scouts of the Mistletoe Troop baked homemade cookies and ...