The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom first registered a Bahamas troop of Boy Scouts on 19 March 1913 and formed its Bahamas Local Association.

The Association became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in the same year.

The Scout Association of the Bahamas was incorporated on 19 November 1975.

[2] The Scouts own a 30-acre (120,000 m2) recreational site in Adelaide Village, New Providence.

The emblem of The Scout Association of the Bahamas features a very stylized marlin and flamingo head, topped by a rounded black arrowhead, in the colors of the flag of the Bahamas.