Named for the wife of Daniel Boone, well-known early pioneer of the State, the chapter began in Newport in 1897 and has maintained a membership of seventy-five or more members for the last forty-five years. Due to changing residential patterns, the home of the chapter was changed to Fort Thomas in 1959.

The chapter's first large project was spearheading the restoration of the Daniel Boone monument in the Frankfort Cemetery with Henry J. Famey, the well-known artist, supervising work on the pictorial panels; and the erection of an iron fence to protect the monument from further vandalism.

Members have generously supported many local, State, and National projects of DAR including marking graves of many Revolutionary soldiers buried in the area, chapter members, the Organizing Regent who also served as Kentucky State Regent, and participation with other Chapters in the dedication of many plaques marking historical sites.   The Rebecca Bryan Boone Chapter established a city playground in 1910, erected one of the first public drinking fountains of the area on tile Courthouse square.  The Chapter members decorated and furnished a recreation room at the Fort Thomas Military Post (now the Veterans Hospital which the Chapter continues to support); contributed toward the restoration of "Monticello," "Kenmore," tile Rose Window and Memorial Bell Tower at Valley Forge, and supported a French orphan of World War I.

Over the years members have typed and contributed thousands of pages of Bible and cemetery records, and currently maintain a Chapter library of historical and genealogical reference material including bound volumes of nearly every past issue of the DAR Magazine.

Generous contributions of money, artifacts, and furnishings for Duncan Tavern Historic Center and the John Fox, Jr. Library, the Kentucky DAR State Headquarters in Paris, have been given by members since its purchase in 1940.

Each year members sponsor Constitution Week and American History displays, give History awards in local schools, present Good Citizen awards, ROTC medals, and qualify for Chapter Achievement.