Narrow Passage Chapter, NSDAR

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  Chapter Anniversary

  On November 12, 2016, Narrow Passage Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR or DAR), marked its 40th anniversary. The Woodstock, Virginia, chapter was organized in the Bicentennial year with 21 members. The Virginia State Regent administered the oath to the officers. The chapter’s organizing meeting was held November 13, 1976.

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  Interesting Fact

  During the renovation of the Shenandoah County Courthouse, the oldest courthouse in continuous use west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Narrow Passage Chapter, NSDAR, obtained a portion of the black locust threshold to the Treasurer’s office from which our gavel was made.

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  Preserving History

  For the past 40 years, the chapter has memorialized John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg and, since its October 1, 1988, dedication on Court Square, laid a wreath at the bust of General Muhlenberg that the chapter commissioned of Caroline Muhlenberg Hufford Anderson, a sculptor and direct descendant of Muhlenberg. We also honor General Muhlenberg’s 8th Virginia Regiment with a newly published brochure on its men and history that began when, in January 1776, during his sermon in a log church in Woodstock, Reverend Muhlenberg removed his clerical robe to reveal the uniform of a Continental Army colonel and enlisted parishioners to join him in the fight for American independence.