Vermont State Society
Daughters of the American Revolution Inc.
Vermont State DAR Properties
Vermont State DAR chapters maintain chapter houses and museums around the state of Vermont. Learn more about these beautiful properties!
The Mary Baker Allen Chapter House in Cornwall, Vermont, is Vermont's only D.A.R. Chapter House erected expressly to serve that function. It bears an historical name chosen by chapter members to honor the woman who was mother to Green Mountain Boys Ethan and Ira Allen, and aunt to fellow militiaman Remember Baker. The building was funded in its entirety by a gift from Martha Elizabeth Samson Porter, a descendant of one of Cornwall's early families, at a time when women did not yet have the vote. The building houses a large bronze plaque, commissioned by the Cornwall Daughters, giving the names of those from Cornwall who served during the American Revolution.
Samson Memorial - Ethan and Mary Baker Allen Chapter House
On this site stood the Old State House built for use by the Vermont Legislature in 1810. Town meetings were also held in the building. It was also a district school, and the current structure was built in 1851 as a (Village) District No. 4 one-room schoolhouse. It is owned by the Town of Newbury, Vermont, but is leased to and maintained by the Oxbow Chapter, NSDAR.
Oxbow House
John Strong, who built the Mansion in 1796, was an American Revolutionary War Patriot and a prominent early citizen of Addison County. He served as a judge, surveyor, State Legislator and represented Addison at the State Convention that adopted the Constitution of the United States and approved the admission of Vermont to the Union as the 14th State. Five generations of the Strong family lived in the home; their lives were intertwined with historic events at Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and the Plattsburgh battle sites.
John Strong Mansion
