Colonial Dames of America

Not to be confused with The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.

Mount Vernon Hotel Museum, National Headquarters of the Colonial Dames of America

The Colonial Dames of America (CDA) is an American organization composed of women who are descended from an ancestor who lived in British America from 1607–1775, and was of service to the colonies by either holding public office, being in the military, or serving the Colonies in some other "eligible" way.

The National Headquarters is at Mount Vernon Hotel Museum in New York, which was purchased by the CDA in 1924.

History

The organization was founded in 1890, shortly before the founding of two similar societies, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Gallery

• Lower Shawneetown Shannoah historical marker HRoe.jpg

  Historical marker located at Lower Shawneetown near South Portsmouth, Kentucky, erected by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, June 1946

• WLA ima high chest of drawers.jpg

  Indianapolis Museum of Art, gift of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Indiana

• Spanish-American War Memorial - bronze marker - Arlington National Cemetery - 2011.JPG

  The first monument ever erected at the Spanish-American War Memorial (Arlington National Cemetery) by a society of women

References

• Official website
• Mount Vernon Hotel Museum
• The National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century
• Complete list of active hereditary societies in the USA