Orleans Chapter DAR

10/12/2026

October 12 marks Indigenous Peoples' Day and the DAR remains committed to serving this community through the work of the NSDAR American Indians Committee, which is dedicated to the illuminating the path of empowerment for the American Indian, Native Alaskan, and First Nations’ communities.

10/11/2026

Since our founding in 1890, DAR members have worked tirelessly to promote historic preservation, patriotism and educational ideals in communities across this nation and in overseas chapters. To help highlight the DAR service organization mission, members are encouraged to perform and record their vo...

09/17/2026

09/12/2026

Orleans Chapter NSDAR supports the Military Women’s Memorial’s “Make Herstory” Project!

Every woman who has served our Nation in uniform has a story of service, sacrifice, courage, and commitment. We are proud to support the Military Women’s Memorial in its efforts to ensure those stories are preserved and remembered for generations to come.

You don’t have to be a veteran to help preserve this important history. Consider registering a woman in your family who served — your mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, daughter, or another woman whose service deserves to be remembered. You can add her photograph and share details about her military service, helping ensure her story has a permanent place in our Nation’s history.

👉 Learn more and register her story: https://womensmemorial.org/make-herstory/

Every woman who has served our Nation in uniform has a story, a story of service, sacrifice, courage, and commitment. At the Military Women’s Memorial, we are working to ensure those stories of service are preserved, remembered, and shared for generations to come.

If you served or are serving, we invite you to register your service with the Military Women’s Memorial and become part of our National Register, where the stories of service of more than 341,000 women are preserved and shared.

You don’t have to be a veteran to help preserve history.

Create a Friend account and register a woman in your family who served, a mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, daughter, or another woman whose service deserves to be remembered. Add her photograph. Share details about her service. Help make sure her story has a permanent place in America’s history.

Whether she served generations ago or is serving today, help us ensure her story is not lost.

Register. Remember. Preserve her legacy.

👉 Visit https://womensmemorial.org/make-herstory/ to get started.

08/18/2026

in 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote. Today marks the 106th anniversary of this monumental moment in American history.

DAR member Febb Ensminger Burn played a pivotal role in its passage. Her son, Congressman Harry T. Burn, was prepared to vote against the amendment, and the outcome hinged on his decision. Just before the vote, he received a letter from his mother urging him to change course: "Hurrah, and vote for suffrage!" she wrote, encouraging him to "be a good boy" and vote in favor at the last minute.

The next day, Congressman Burn cited his mother's advice in a speech explaining his decision to vote in favor, securing ratification and forever changing the course of American history.

07/11/2026

Find us today (Saturday) at the Kendall Fire Department Carnival- we’ll be here until 4:00pm!

07/04/2026

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Happy 4th of July from the New York Daughters of the American Revolution! ❤️🤍💙

06/19/2026

On June 19, 1865, the last enslaved people in America learned they were free. Though the Civil War had ended months before, the news had not yet reached Galveston, Texas. That day, now commemorated as Juneteenth, became a significant date in American history.

The founding ideals of this nation, liberty, equality, and freedom for all, have always been a promise of progress. Juneteenth represents a turning point in America's journey to fulfill them, and a reminder that the work of each generation is to bring those ideals closer to reality.

DAR honors that history and the countless Americans whose courage and perseverance helped carry this nation toward a more perfect union.

05/27/2026

Tonight (Wednesday, May 27)! Patrice Birner will speak at the Gaines Basin Cobblestone Schoolhouse

05/25/2026

Today we stop & remember all who lost their lives in service to our nation as members of our armed forces. We honor their service and sacrifice, today and always.