June 17, 2019
Spring 2019 – Message from the President General
Brantley Bolling Knowles, CDA's 38th President General, shares news about the latest activities of The Colonial Dames of America.
CDA News
April 12, 2019
4.2.19 – American Eden Named 2019 CDA Book Award Winner
The Colonial Dames of America has named the winners of its 2019 Book Awards. The awards will be presented at the Society’s Awards Dinner in New York on April 27, 2019. Past President General Audrey Svensson is Chairman of the CDA Book Awards Committee.
February 19, 2019
Winter 2019 – Message from the President General
Brantley Bolling Knowles, CDA's 38th President General, shares news about the latest activities of The Colonial Dames of America.
February 2, 2019
2.02.2019 – CDA Gates at Jamestown Project Announced
The Colonial Dames of America is working to restore the entrance gates to Historic Jamestowne that the Society donated in 1907.
November 20, 2018
11.20.2018 – Tales in Azure and Gold: “The Flying Angel”
Chapter XIII President Jocelyn Lance shares about her saucy ancestor, Magdalena Dircks Volkertsen Hendricksen Rosencranz, a.k.a “The Flying Angel,” who lived in New Amsterdam under Dutch rule in the mid-1600s (today's New York City).
November 15, 2018
Fall 2018 – Message from the President General
Brantley Bolling Knowles, CDA's 38th President General, shares news about the latest activities of The Colonial Dames of America, including the 2018 Fall Benefit, office updates, and the great work being done by many of the Dames.
October 27, 2018
10.27.2018 – CDA Annual Fall Benefit Held October 17th
An elegant and successful evening at the venerable Union Club in Manhattan raised funds to benefit the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden (MVHM&G), which is wholly owned and operated by The Colonial Dames of America.
August 22, 2018
8.22.18 – Three Dames Create New Website for International Hildreth Meière Association
The International Hildreth Meière Association has recently launched a new website.The International Hildreth Meière Association has recently launched a new website hildrethmeiere.org that encompasses almost all of American Art Deco muralist Hildreth Meière’s 100 commissions. The website was a collaborative project among three Dames: Hildreth
August 22, 2018
Summer 2018 – Message from the President General
The Colonial Dames of America (CDA) has elected Brantley Bolling Knowles as the Society's 38th President General. She will serve a three-year term. Founded in May 1890, the CDA was the first hereditary lineage society for women focusing on the colonial period. With 40 chapters in
August 21, 2018
Summer 2018 – Social Register Observer Article
"The Colonial Dames of America Celebrates a Century-Long Relationship" was published as an article in the Summer issue of the Social Register Observer. The article was written by Sharri Whiting De Masi, the CDA's Communications Committee Chair. The article shares about CDA's 2017 Fall Benefit,