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Chapter Profile Our chapter was founded April 8, 1926, in Carmel, Putnam County, New York. It currently consists of 57 members and 5 associate members.
Current Chapter Projects Our Annual Holiday Auction will be on December 10 at the Mahopac Golf and Beach Club. See details at www.jewelsofpc.org. All are welcome! Our new book "Gravestones of Revolutionary War Patriots in Putnam County, NY" is now available. Check here for more information. n Lake Glenida Trail Project - dedicating a bench and plaque on the new trail. n Colonial Readers Project - Children's stories about Colonial times with period costumes for area libraries. n We support our local Women's Shelter by contributing cell phones and making Easter baskets for the children. n Puppetry Project - creating a puppet show for area youth. n We issue Community Service Awards to young members of our community. n We are researching Crosby families in Putnam, Dutchess and Westchester counties which can be seen at Friends of Enoch Crosby. n We have guest speakers at our monthly meetings talking about a variety of issues. n We support veterans through the Wounded Warrior Project and by visiting our local Veterans Hospital and attending Veterans Day Ceremonies. Our chapter's Project Patriot, named "Sybil's Sister", supports our active duty female warriors. n We attend local history and patriotic observances in our community and county. n We collect UPC labels and Box Tops for Education to help support the DAR schools. n Members also participate in C.A.R. (Children of the American Revolution) activities and co-sponsor the Highland Pass Society C.A.R.. n One of our members is working to restore a local graveyard where several Revolutionary patriots are buried. Out and About
Our Vice Regent, Carol Bailey, with
Margaret Corbin Day
Two of our members at Continental Congress in Washington, D.C. June, 2006.
A recent visit to Constitution Island in the Hudson River, New York. One of our ongoing projects is to honor those who served the cause of freedom by placing memorials on gravesites.
In the photo Left to Right:
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September,
2006, New York State Conference in Albany, attended by Enoch Crosby
members.
Here
we are at a visit to the Oblong Friends Meeting House in Pawling, New
York, built in 1764. A portion of Washington's Continental army was
encamped on the hills nearby during the fall of 1778. It was used as
a hospital for the soldiers.
In
2004 the Chapter was proud to place a marker on the Memorial to Enoch
Crosby. The original gravestone was destroyed by people hacking bits of
the stone off as souvenirs. Ferdinand Hopkins, a grand nephew, had this
monument made and placed at the grave of Enoch Crosby in 1914. A DAR
grave marker was placed at the grave by the Enoch Crosby Chapter on May 2,
2004, at the Gilead Burying Ground, Carmel, New York
Marker