Montana's DAR Markers . . . Honoring Where History Was Made

Since the spade has been put on public display, it has been used
several times to plant shrubs or trees at DAR headquarters and at
Mount Vernon for memorial services.
SOURCES
• Historic monument records, Office of the Historian General, Wash. D.C.
• State Centennial History, MSSDAR, by Iris McKinney Gray, Vol. V 1894-
1994
• MSSDAR 1982-1984 Pictorial Supplement to Historic Events of 1894-1977,
by Mrs. R.V. Love, Mrs. Sidney Groff and Miss Lorene Burks
• “Breaks Ground Memorial Continental Hall,” information supplied by
Mrs. Hazel Fuller Kreinheder, Historical Research NSDAR, circa 1970s
• American Monthly Magazine (DAR), “The Continental Hall, Daughters of
the American Revolution,” Nov. 1902, pps. 353-360
• Great Falls Tribune newspaper, Great Falls Montana, “Furnished the
Spade,” Oct. 12, 1902, pg. 4
The Washington Elm
GPS coordinates n/a
Commemorated George Washington’s Bicentennial
Site location State capitol grounds, Helena
Installed May 10, 1932
HISTORY
It was on a Tuesday, May 10, 1932, that the Oro Fino Chapter,
NSDAR conducted a ceremony dedicating a newly-planted young elm
tree donated by the DAR of Maryland. The elm was called by the local
paper a “grandchild” of the famous Washington Elm in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. (While never verified, many believe that it was under
the Washington Elm that George Washington stood when he accepted
command of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War in 1775.)
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