Mount Garfield Chapter

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

Grand Junction, Colorado

The Mount Garfield Chapter NSDAR was organized in 1910, during the State Regency of Maria Eleanore Wheaton, the fifth State Regent. Frances Kent McClintock was the Organizing Regent. The application for Charter was approved February 22, 1910. There are 30 members listed as Charter Members.

The Chapter took its name, Mount Garfield, from the name given the promontory that stands above the valley that was named the day, in 1881, that the news of President Garfield’s assassination was received.

On the 26 of September in 1881, the town site of Grand Junction was established. A DAR marker on today’s Avalon Theater identifies the location of the developer, the Grand Junction Town Company. In the early days of the Chapter, meetings were at the Grand Junction Hotel LaCourt, the home of one of the members. The DAR members planted trees at the Emerson School that had been in the yard of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mount Garfield DAR Charter Member Lola Price rode the first passenger train into Grand Junction. Her husband, Edwin, was the proprietor and editor of the Grand Junction News, the first newspaper in town. A DAR marker identifies the site of this early publishing enterprise.

Over the years the Chapter has remained active in the community. Student history essay contests, Good Citizenship Awards and scholarship competitions have maintained association with the schools. With the local Veterans' Administration Hospital, there have been numerous opportunities for involvement with our honored veterans. County wide patriotic holidays and parades have allowed us to show our patriotic spirit to the community. Placing DAR Markers and transcribing local records are helping preserve the local history.

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Last Updated: May 10, 2007