Month: March 2021
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Utah DAR Monuments & Markers Series Part XII: Escalante Flagpole and Monument
A thirty-foot flagpole and striking red rock monument were dedicated on Friday, November 10, 2016 at Escalante, Utah in remembrance of Utah DAR member Winnie Washburn. That day would have been Winnie Washburn’s 99th birthday. Winnie Washburn was a member of the Bald Eagle Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and Past Utah…
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Gold Star Mothers Remembered
Hello Friends, As we continue to celebrate Women’s History Month, I would like to call attention to Honorary State Regent Susan Holt and her State Regent’s Project. Her project began in July 2018 to restore the Gold Star Mothers’ Memorial on Gold Star Hill at Memory Grove Park in Salt Lake City. After months of research, Mrs.…
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Utah DAR Monuments & Markers Series Part XI: Tonaquint Cemetery
The Tonaquint Cemetery Veterans’ Memorial was dedicated in 2003 to the veterans that are buried in one of the two St. George, Utah Cemeteries. The Color Country Chapter helps to fund wreaths for this cemetery and participates in the wreath-laying ceremony during Wreaths Across America every December.
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Utah’s Real Daughter
Hello Friends, The month of March has been designated as Women’s History Month. This Regent would like to discuss one of our State Society’s founding members. Harriet Jacques Wetmore Sells was a Real Daughter. A Real Daughter is a daughter of a Patriot who fought or assisted the American Revolution. She suggested the name “Spirit of…
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Utah DAR Monuments & Markers Series Part X: Miller Park Plaque
The plaque details the importance of Red Butte Creek in the establishment of Fort Douglas and recognizes Minnie Miller for her generous contribution of land. The land where the Miller Bird Refuge and Nature Park sits was given as a wildlife refuge in 1935 by Minnie Viele Miller in honor of her late husband, Lee…