The name “Boca Ciega” means “Blind Mouth” in Spanish and was taken from the major geographical feature of the area, Boca Ciega Bay, a large body of water with depths no greater than 18 feet.  

Boca Ciega Bay is located in southern Pinellas County, near Seminole, St. Petersburg and the beach communities of Madeira Beach and Treasure Island. Its early history included pirates, Indians and buried treasure.  During the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish ships sailed the Gulf waters along Florida’s West Coast.  In 1528 Pánfilo de Narváez (1470–1528), a Spanish conquistador, came in search of gold and slaves. He sailed into what is now known as Boca Ciega Bay and landed in the jungle areas of St. Petersburg. Narváez’s landing spot, now named Jungle Prada Site, is older than Plymouth Rock, Jamestown, or the Lost Colony of Sir Walter Raleigh.

Fast forward a few hundred years until June 7, 1947, when a new chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR or NSDAR), was organized at a meeting held at the home of Mrs. John W. Davis, near beautiful Boca Ciega Bay, Pass-a-Grille Beach, Florida. This new chapter would meet on Saturdays rather than on a weekday thereby making Chapter meetings more accessible to most working women. The group voted to name the new chapter the Boca Ciega Chapter, NSDAR, with Mrs. Frank E. S. Turner in the position of Organizing Regent. 

Join us!

“I am Today’s DAR!”

_{Photos courtesy of Chapter Members}