Augustine Warner Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution

11/11/2025

Honor a Veteran this season by helping us sponsor wreaths for Wreaths Across America from the Gloucester community!
It will help us to support our activities in the community as well as remembering our veterans. Thank you!

11/11/2025

We participated in the Battle of the Hook Memorial, wreath-laying ceremony at Abingdon Park. This is thought to be the same area where this battle was actually fought. We honored the French soldiers who gave their lives in the battle for independence. People from the French Embassy, The American Friends of Lafayette, members of SAR and DAR as well as other historical organizations and the local community attended. The 4th graders of Abingdon Elementary sang the National anthem.

11/11/2025

Our day of DAR Service to America we spent sprucing up Abingdon Park in preparation for the Battle of the Hook Memorial Service the following day.

11/11/2025

With grateful hearts we wish to honor our veterans ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

10/14/2025

Happy 250th Birthday to the U.S. Navy! The official anniversary is October 13, 2025, marking its establishment by the Continental Congress in 1775. Celebrations are taking place throughout 2025, including major events in Philadelphia this week like the Homecoming 250 commemoration and a Blue Angels flyover on October 13th.

09/17/2025

Happy Constitution Day! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
DAR Constitution Week 2025

09/16/2025

Please join us at Abingdon Elementary School to commemorate the Battle of the Hook, the most significant battle of the Revolution in Gloucester. The Augustine Warner Chapter will be presenting a wreath-laying ceremony to honor the French soldiers who gave their all on the battlefield at this very location.

09/16/2025

Interesting history of the area...

Calling all local history buffs! Have you had the chance to read the recently published report regarding Bacon's Rebellion? The report, funded by the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program, identifies the most likely properties and landscapes in the Dragon Swamp that served as the battlespace and the sanctuary space for this event. By any measure, what took place in the Dragon in late summer 1676 was a Native victory.

Bacon’s Rebellion was the first full-scale armed insurrection in English America. The project focuses on the underreported role of the colony’s Indigenous nations in events, especially those nations located in the lower Tidewater. Native nations throughout the colony were the principal focus of rebel leader Nathaniel Bacon’s ire. He aimed to destroy these communities through a program of annihilation. Bacon left in his path a wake of Native death and enslavement. When he turned his focus to the Pamunkey and other Tidewater nations, indigenous ecological and military knowledge coupled with the extraordinary leadership of Cockacoeske, the Pamunkey weroansqua (leader), proved Bacon’s undoing, at least in Dragon Swamp.

Head to our website to read the full report:https://www.dragonrun.org/uploads/1/4/0/9/140904387/mapping_the_dragon_final_report_2025.pdf

📸 “Cockacoeske, Queen of Pamunkey (1656-1686),” by Ethan Brown (Pamunkey) (King William County Historical Society)

09/16/2025

Something fun to see...

Over the next 12 months, we'll be celebrating 250 years of America in Virginia. Scientific research in 1776 laid the foundation for many of the innovations we see today in the fields of medicine, chemistry, engineering and more. By looking back, we gain a better understanding of our scientific present and future!

After a 1776 smallpox outbreak ravaged the American militia, George Washington ordered his troops to get inoculated. To immunize them against the disease, pustule fluid from an infected soldier was shared with an uninfected soldier. After fighting a less severe form of the disease under quarantine, the soldiers were less likely to die or get severely sick from smallpox in the future.

This same concept informs how modern-day traditional vaccines work. Smallpox, which is estimated to have killed between 300 and 500 million people in the 20th century, was declared forever eradicated in 1980 by the World Health Organization (WHO)--a monumental public health achievement!

Innovation in mRNA research led to vaccines with 95% clinical efficacy in preventing symptomatic COVID-19. Continued advances in mRNA vaccine technology are working towards treating cancer, cystic fibrosis, strokes and even peanut allergies.

09/11/2025

September 11, never forget