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Award-winning Projects of CDA
Chapters from 1998 to Present
1998 -
Chapter V, San Francisco: Camron-Stanford House Preservation
Association; a slide and tape conversion to video lecture on their
historic site.
1999
- Chapter II, Philadelphia: Lemon Hill
historic house museum: “Living History Lessons at Lemon Hill”
children’s program
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Lemon Hill, Philadelphia, PA |
2000
- Chapter XVII, Palm Beach: Glades
Tri-State Education Program; a program of the Palm Beach County
Literacy Coalition.
2001
- Chapter XIII, Kansas City:
Harris-Kearney House project; restoring the shutters on the oldest
standing brick house in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Harris-Kearney House, Kansas City,
Missouri |
2002
- Chapter II, Philadelphia: Lemon Hill
historic house museum; a local school study project called “Kids
Tour of Lemon Hill by Kids,” phase two of the educational program
“Living History Lessons at Lemon Hill” that received the award in
1999.
2003
- Chapter XIX, Florida Everglades: Parents
As Teachers research and educational project; a division of Early
Years Educational Foundation of Collier County, Florida.
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Planting a Garden, Collier County, FL |
2004
- Chapter XIV, Chicago: Schmidt-Burnham
Log House; a restoration project on the historic house in Winnetka,
Illinois.
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Schmidt-Burnham Log House, Winnetka, IL |
2005
– Three chapters shared the award.
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Chapter IV - Paris, France:
Assisting L’Association Hermione La Fayette, in constructing
a replica of the frigate which the Marquis de La Fayette
sailed into Boston Harbor in 1780 to aid General George
Washington during the Revolutionary war.
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Building l'Hermione, France |
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Chapter XXIII - Virginia:
Support of the Jamestowne Rediscovery project to support a
graduate student at the archeology dig on Jamestowne Island,
in preparation for the 400th celebration of the settlement
of Jamestown, Virginia.
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Historic Jamestowne Field, Courtesy APVA
Preservation Virginia |
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Chapter XXX - Venice,
Florida: Support of the Venice Area Historical Society’s
efforts to educate the public about the entities who used
the recently restored Venice Train Depot and to lay the
groundwork for a Circus Educational Program that will tell
the story of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus
as it arrived and departed each year from its winter home.
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Circus Parade, Venice, FL |
2006
- Chapter XXI-Dallas, Texas: Project
Cookies for the Troops
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Cookies for the Troops, Dallas, TX |
2007
- Two chapters shared the award:
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Chapter X - Rome, Italy:
To produce a booklet about Americans buried in the Protestant
Cemetery in Rome that will be sold in the cemetery bookshop.
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Grave of American Ambassador in the
Protestant Cemetery, Rome, Italy |
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Chapter XI - London, England:
To replace a sign next to the marble memorial to George and Sarah
Fairfax, friends of George Washington, in the garden of the American
Museum near Bath, that tells the story of friends torn apart by the
American Revolution.
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Fairfax Grotto in the garden of the
American Museum, Bath, England |
2008
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Two chapters shared the award:
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Chapter XXIV, Atlanta, Georgia:
Conservation of a statue of an angel
marking the grave of a child, and restoration
of a statue marking the grave of her
mother in the Historic Oakland Cemetery,
Atlanta.
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Nance Family Graves Before Restoration
Nance Family Graves Restored
Oakland Historic Cemetery, Atlanta, GA |
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Chapter XXXI, South Carolina: |
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Restoration of the ca. 1740 riverside
entrance brick steps of Hopsewee Plantation House to its original colonial appearance. Hopsewee Plantation
is the birthplace of Thomas Lynch, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. |
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The House at Hopsewee Plantation,
Georgetown, SC |
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