Chickasaw Bluff Chapter

Organized June 25, 1958

Chapter History

The Chickasaw Bluff Chapter was organized in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, June 25, 1958, and confirmed by the NSDAR Continental Congress on October 15, 1958.

The First Regent was Mrs. Ruth Malcolm Fleming with thirty-two charter members. Mrs. Hillman P Rogers, State Regent, Tennessee Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, administered the oath of office to the Chapter membership and installed the Chapter Officers.

The fourth Chickasaw Bluff was just below the Wolf River. After the purchase of Louisiana by the United States from France, Fort Pickering was erected two miles lower down at the end of the Bluffs. This bluff was two miles long and sixty feet perpendicular in height. The top had been cleared to some little distance back, and the houses of the settlers were very pleasantly situated near the edge of the cliff. This site was chosen for the present City of Memphis, because it was in the early days the largest and most pleasing location for settlement between St. Louis, Missouri and Natchez, Mississippi.