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Chapter Profile Our chapter was founded April 8, 1926, in Carmel, Putnam County, New York. It currently consists of 33 members and associate members.
Current Chapter Projects n We support our local Women's Shelter by contributing cell phones. n We have issued a Community Service Award to a young member 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 local history. n At our 2007 Annual Luncheon we raised enough money to send the Wounded Warriors Project two backpacks. n We supported veterans in our local Veterans Hospital with Christmas cards and by attending Veterans Day Ceremonies n We attend local history and patriotic observances in our community and county. n In 2006, our 80th anniversary year, we researched the history of the Chapter through the chapter scrapbooks. We also prepared a more complete history of all members since the chapter's inception in 1926 including their patriots and state of service. n We are collecting Campbell's Soup labels and Box Tops for Education to help support the DAR schools. n Members also participate in local C.A.R. (Children of the American Revolution) activities. n One of our members is working to restore a local graveyard where several Revolutionary patriots are buried. n In November, 2007 we co-hosted the annual Tri-Chapter luncheon with the Mahwenawasigh Chapter and the Quassaick Chapter at the historic Schlesinger's Steak House in New Windsor, NY. Out and About
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:
Our 75th Anniversary Luncheon in June, 2001 Top row left to right: Julia
Koehler, Daphne Stephens, Robin Huber, Susan Hopkins, Lisa McPartland,
Barbara Draper, Janet Tolbert, Jane Pokorny, Marilyn Greene
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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
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