Black Eagle-Assinniboine Chapter NSDAR
Great Falls, Montana
The Missouri River rushes and pounds over the falls near the city of Great Falls, carving its route through granite bluffs and pine hills, then it drops over 500 feet in less than ten miles. In his history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Captain Lewis tells how his ears were saluted with the agreeable sound of falling water, toward which he directed his steps and thus discovered the Great Falls of the Missouri. From these falls, the city got its name. One of the falls was named Black Eagle Falls by Lewis and Clark, for an eagle that roosted in the top of a broken cottonwood tree. It was from this eagle that Black Eagle Chapter took its name.
The chapter was organized December 11, 1919, by Mrs. Millennie Miller Rogers, Organizing Regent. The first meeting was held in the Peacock Room of the Park Hotel, 100 Central Avenue. This building was designed by renowned architect, George Shanley, and built in 1915 by Leigland, Kleppe and Co., after the original burned in 1913. Town founders, Paris Gibson and Herbert Chowen paid for the new hotel.
In 1931, organizing regent, Hazel Roberts Love, organized the Assinniboine Chapter in Havre, MT. That chapter was named for nearby - albeit abandoned - Fort Assinniboine. In 1991, due to declining membership, the Assinniboine Chapter requested to merge with the Black Eagle Chapter and together we became the Black Eagle - Assinniboine Chapter, NSDAR.
For membership information, please contact the [email protected].
The chapter was organized December 11, 1919, by Mrs. Millennie Miller Rogers, Organizing Regent. The first meeting was held in the Peacock Room of the Park Hotel, 100 Central Avenue. This building was designed by renowned architect, George Shanley, and built in 1915 by Leigland, Kleppe and Co., after the original burned in 1913. Town founders, Paris Gibson and Herbert Chowen paid for the new hotel.
In 1931, organizing regent, Hazel Roberts Love, organized the Assinniboine Chapter in Havre, MT. That chapter was named for nearby - albeit abandoned - Fort Assinniboine. In 1991, due to declining membership, the Assinniboine Chapter requested to merge with the Black Eagle Chapter and together we became the Black Eagle - Assinniboine Chapter, NSDAR.
For membership information, please contact the [email protected].
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