Chapter Name |
Chapter Location |
Year Organized |
Origin of Chapter Name |
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Burnt Meadow |
Sabattus |
April 17,1948 |
This name was given to the territory known as Webster, by early settlers. It was burnt over each year by the Indians to be kept free from woodland growth for a camping ground between the Androscoggin and |
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June 25,1908 |
This chapter was named in honor of all the women who contributed in their own individual ways, whether by support or loss of husbands and sons, to the cause of the Revolutionary War. |
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Elizabeth Wadsworth |
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Oct.8,1894 |
The first chapter of the DAR in the State of |
Esther Eayres |
Orono |
July 12,1918 |
Esther Eayers was the first white child born in Orono on April 30, 1777. |
Skowhegan |
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Eunice Farnsworth was the first white woman to settle in |
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Winslow |
Mar.17,1913 |
Fort Halifax is at the junction of the |
Frances Dighton Williams |
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May 21,1897 |
Frances Dighton Williams was the wife of Richard Williams, founder of the town of |
Hannah Weston |
Machias |
Feb.2,1901 |
Hannah Weston was a Revolutionary War heroine who carried ammunition through sixteen miles of wilderness for the men who were engaged in the first naval battle of the war which took place in |
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Dec. 17,1897 |
This chapter was named after the ancient Indian name of "Cushnoc", meaning, " the sacred site beside the rippling water." |
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Lady Knox |
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Jan.17,1898 |
This chapter was named on honor of the wife of General Henry Knox, George Washington's first Secretary of War. She was always at the side of Martha Washington, the ministering angel of the camp, throughout those tragic days at |
Brooksville |
July 7,2001 |
This chapter's name is MicMac for "the big tideway river". The whole course of the river, along the town line which separates Brooksville from Castine, Penobscot and Sedgewick, runs about 15 miles - all of it salt water except |
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1895 |
This was the 2nd chapter to form in |
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Dec. 3,1976 |
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Old York |
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Jan.9,1914 |
This chapter was named from the historical setting of the town of |
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Nov.26,1932 |
Pemaquid was an ancient historical Indian name, given to the Fort, an ancient landmark which was built in 1607, and later destroyed by the French and Indians in Colonial Days. |
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Searsport |
June 9,1972 |
The name was suggested by State Vice Regent Agnes Ames, commemorating the ill-fated Penobscot Expedition of 1779, the largest infantry-naval engagement of the Revolutionary War. |
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Ramassoc |
Bucksport |
Oct.15,1976 |
Ramassoc is an Indian word meaning "the meeting of the waters". The town of |
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Jan.25,1897 |
Rebecca Emery, for whom the chapter was named, was lovingly called the "Grandmother of all |
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Silence Howard Hayden |
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Jan.3,1898 |
This chapter was named for the wife of Revolutionary War Soldier Col. Josiah Hayden. |
Monson |
Nov.15,1952 |
Tisbury Manor was chosen as the name, to memorialize |
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Topsham-Brunswick |
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Nov.5,1924 |
This chapter was named for the two towns from which it drew its members. |