The Grand Lodge granted Queens Council a charter for a lodge of the WWW in July of 1930. The first members of Suanhacky Lodge included Joseph Brinton, Arthur Burrows and many others. By the end of the first year the membership in Suanhacky Lodge reached a total of 45 members. In the early years Suanhacky Lodge functioned out of Camp Man which was located in the Ten Mile River Scout Camps. Joseph Brinton was the Camp Director at Camp Man and he represented the lodge at the regional meeting of 1930 which was held at Camp Ranachqua. In 1936, Suanhacky has the proud distinction of calling themselves the Home of the National Chief. Joseph Brinton, founder of Suanhacky Lodge was elected the Grand Chieftain at the National Lodge meeting of 1936 which was held at Treasure Island, the birthplace of the Order of the Arrow. Some of Suanhackys famous Arrowmen include Eagle Scout Paul Siple of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who later became the president of the United States, and the Mayor of New York City, William ODwyer. One of the most lasting projects that Suanhacky lodge completed over the years was the construction of the Tower of Friendship. The lodge members built this and rocks from all of the states were sent to build the tower, showing the friendship that is made through scouting. Over the years Suanhacky has prospered and in the year 2000 they celebrated their 70th anniversary. Suanhacky Lodge has dedicated 70 years of cheerful service to the scouts and Scouters of the Queens Council and as the chapters have merged and the lodge has changed, the one thing that stayed consistent was their undying support to the people of Queens. Suanhacky is striving to have the next seventy years better than the first. (As seen on Section NE-2C Web site)

Our Lodge could not have chosen a more appropriate name when we were first organized. The name Suanhacky has a tremendous history and significance. Although it could have been spelled seawanhacky, sewenhaka, or many other versions, it is basically the name for Long Island. First recorded in the documents relating to the purchase by the Dutch from the Indians at the period of settlement, it was found in three Indian deeds. Two dated June 16, 1636 and one July 16, 1936 for meadows located in what is now Brooklyn. The deed related to land situated on the island called by them Sewanhacky or Sewanhaking. The prefix seawan or sewan was one of the names for "wampum shell money" of the indians. The Dutch knew it as seawan, sewant, or zeewan, and in their journals, they noted that these small beads were manufactured by the Indians themselves and used as money and jewels. Trumbell, a famed historian on the subject, believes the real meaning of sewan is from the Indian verb seahog, meaning "they are scattered" or from the participle seahwhoun, also meaning scattered or loose. The Dutch traders gave the name sewand or zeewind to all shell money. The sewan was manufactured most abundantly on Long Island. As it was for this reason, we get the name Sewan-hacky or the "Island of Shells". The suffix "hacky" corresponds to the Delaware "hacky" or "hacking", meaning land or country. Sewanhacky therefore means "the sewa country". When our lodge first chose this name we mistakenly believed that it was the tribe of Indians that lived on Long Island. Latter, we were to learn that it was just a nickname for any Indian that lived on the Island. They received this nickname because they were inhabitants of Sewanhacky.