Our Chapter

In 1976, Ruby McCrary Pfadenhauer was appointed Organizing Regent by the State Board of Management, Georgia Society, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Her mission was to find at least twenty-five DAR members who wished to become the organizing body of a new DAR Chapter in Augusta, Georgia. She invited members from her church, Augusta College faculty, faculty wives, and sixty others to submit their applications to join the DAR.

Of the thirty-six invited, thirty-six agreed to formulate a new Chapter known as “College Hill Chapter. NSDAR.”  The name “College Hill” was selected and approved because that was the name that George Walton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence for Georgia, had given to his summer home in or near the area known as “Summerville.”

An Organization Meeting was held on October 13, 1976, at the home of the Organizing Regent, Mrs. Herman Pfadenhauer, 721 Monte Sano Avenue, Augusta, Georgia, with a tea honoring Mrs. Hugh Peterson, State chaplain of the Georgia Society, NSDAR.

The College Hill Chapter of 36 members was unanimously approved by the National Board, NSDAR, effective October 15, 1976.