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Saint Helena Plantation Chapter
Palm Harbor, Florida
Organized April 20, 1987

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Saint Helena Plantation Chapter  was organized April 20, 1987, and confirmed by the National Board of Management on April 24, 1987.  The organizational meeting was held at the home of the Organizing Regent,  Mrs. Woodrow Vinson Register.

Count Odet Philippe, a native of Lyons, France, arrived in Pinellas County, Florida, in 1830 aboard his sailing vessel, the Ney.  Prior to his arrival here, Philippe had been taken prisoner by the British at Trafalgar, exiled in the Bahamas and upon release, went to Charleston where he married Charlotte Desheries in 1808.  After her death, Odet married Lady Hortense who helped him rear his four small daughters at Saint Helena Plantation.  It was at Saint Helena Plantation that Phillippe was the first to adapt the grapefruit to Florida culture.

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It is not known why Philippe named his plantation, Saint Helena, however, it is interesting to note that Napoleon was exiled on Saint Helena Island.

Significant to the Chapter's name is the knowledge that Saint Helena, who was the daughter of an innkeeper and mother of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor, became a Christian at the age of eighty.  She gave large sums of money to the poor, and used her power to procure the release of prisoners and the recall of exiles and those condemned to the mines.  She built churches on the sites of the Passion, the Resurrection, and the Ascension.  It is during this period that she is reported to have discovered the wood of the True Cross. 
 

 

Dawn-Leigh Morrison
Regent

Chapter Theme

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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We would like to tell you about our Society.
 

The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was founded October 11, 1890. There are nearly 180,000 women in some 3,000 chapters throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. The National Headquarters is located in three adjoining structures in Washington, D.C.

NSDAR MOTTO
"God, Home, and Country"

President General, NSDAR
Linda Gist Calvin

"The Spirit of Hospitality Opens Doors of Opportunity"

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Sue C. Bratton

"Reach for the Stars ands Make a Difference"

Objectives of the Society

Historic:

 To perpetuate the memory of the men and women who achieved American Independence.

Educational:
 "To promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge."

Patriotic:
To cherish, maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of country and to aid in securing for mankind all the blessings of liberty.

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Membership Qualifications

For more information, contact our Chapter Regent,
Dawn-Leigh Morrison

Chapter Officers

Regent Dawn-Leigh Morrison
Vice Regent Damita Lynn Binkley
Chaplain Gladys J. Stout
Recording Secretary Nancy J. Gillingham
Treasurer Dorris Folwell
Registrar Mary Elizabeth McNaull
Historian Janet Mayott Gillespie
Librarian Rebecca Bandy
Parliamentarian Barbara Branscum

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