Anna Kolbjørnsdatter Lodge #36 was founded on March 13, 1988 in San Francisco, California. The lodge is the largest California lodge and is very involved in the Scandinavian life of the Bay Area. It has continued to grow and prosper since its founding because of its active cultural program. The lodge has a reputation for rosemaling and design work. They also participate each May in the Norway Day Festival in San Francisco, where they sell crafts and Norwegian baked goods. With their earnings, they help support the Døtre av Norge newspaper with special financial help for software and generously support the Daughters of Norway Scholarship Fund.

A Daughters of Norway lodge had previously existed in San Francisco honoring the same person, but the name of that lodge was Anna Kolbjørnson. The members of the new lodge thought it proper to honor the same woman, but used the appropriate gender ending to her name.

The lodge was named for Anna Kolbjørnsdatter (1665 to 1736), the heroine who saved Norway from being captured by the Swedish army. She also saved the silver mines in Kongsberg from being taken by Sweden in 1716. To read more about Anna Kolbjørnsdatter in Norwegian, read the original history of the war with Sweden (1710-1720) by the famous Norwegian historian Henrik Wergeland.