Old Concord Chapter NSDAR
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Concord, Massachusetts |
ConcordConcord was the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott and Bronson Alcott. All lived here and are buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, as well as Daniel Chester French.
For information on Concord's revolutionary war history, visit the link: Concord on April 19, 1775. |
The Old Concord Chapter are members of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR or DAR). This organization is a non-profit, non-political, volunteer women's service organization comprising 3,000 chapters and over 185,000 members. Old Concord Chapter Celebrates their 125th Anniversary!
OCC DAR was established 125 years ago on October 12, 1894.
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What's New
Jan Turnquist, Executive Director, Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House portraying Louisa May Alcott
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Celebrating the Ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution“I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.” ― Louisa May Alcott The town of Concord’s Louisa May Alcott voted for the first time in 1880 at a town meeting when the school committee vote came up. The only thing women were allowed to vote on at the time were school committee related items. Louisa May Alcott’s father, Bronson Alcott, suggested the women vote first and they did. After the women voted the town moderator closed the voting. (Men did not get to vote.) In Massachusetts women were allowed to vote on school committee related matters starting in 1879. Several women in 1873 had run for the Boston School Committee. Those that won were refused their seat by a majority of the existing all male school committee members until the Massachusetts state legislature created an act to open the school committee membership to the women. In 1879, a year before Louisa May Alcott voted for the first time, the Massachusetts state legislature passed a bill allowing women to vote in school committee elections (and nothing else).
Please check out the DAR online exhibit for more information at www.dar.org/archives/suffrage-march-centennial-anniversary-online-exhibition |
Become a Member of the Old Concord Chapter
We always welcome new members!
To become a member please contact the NSDAR here.
To ask questions of our Regent, please click here. See our What We Do page for our activities and events.
To become a member please contact the NSDAR here.
To ask questions of our Regent, please click here. See our What We Do page for our activities and events.
For information about the DAR, visit the links below:
Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
National Society Sons of the American Revolution
National Society Children of the American Revolution
Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
National Society Sons of the American Revolution
National Society Children of the American Revolution
Last Updated: 5/11/20
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