The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America is an American organization composed of women who are descended from an ancestor "who came to reside in an American Colony before 1750, and whose services were rendered during the Colonial Period." The national headquarters of the society is at Washington, D.C., at Dumbarton House.
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The organization was founded in 1890, shortly after the founding of a similar society, the Colonial Dames of America. The main difference between the two is that the CDA was created to have a centrally organized structure under the control of the parent Society in New York, while the NSCDA was intended as more of a federation of State Societies in which each unit had a degree of autonomy.[1]
Another society formed around the same time was the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The NSCDA has a regular periodical, the Dames Dispatch.
The 44 Corporate Societies own and operate over 70 museums around the nation, including: