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Today’s DAR video
This video, hosted on YouTube, highlights the vibrant, active organization the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is today.
Welcome!
Welcome to the John Foster Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR or DAR), website. We hope the information found here will prove helpful. Please contact us to learn more about our active and civic-minded organization.
We meet as a chapter once a month, September through May. Our focus is to promote the DAR objectives of historic preservation, education, and patriotism through interesting chapter programs and activities.
We enjoy our volunteer activities and are proud to make a difference in the lives of our community, state, and country. In addition to our regular monthly meetings, our chapter sponsors educational awards and scholarships, supports Tamassee DAR School and Crossnore School and Children’s Home, and volunteers with our veterans. We honor our revolutionary ancestors, recognize outstanding citizens in our area, and sponsor history essays.
Please contact us (see button in the left menu) if you would like to attend one of our meetings or talk with someone about our chapter.
History
Plaque commemorating
American
Revolutionary War
soldiers from Union County
Photo from chapter archives
The organizational meeting of the John Foster Chapter, NSDAR, took place in October of 1916. Hannah Jane Blair was the organizing regent, with 16 charter members. This was the thirty-third chapter formed in North Carolina.
Our chapter is named for Captain John Foster who served in the American Revolutionary War. He immigrated from Ireland in 1749, and settled on Waxhaw Creek in what is now Union County. He and his wife Jennet had no children. He died in 1821 at the age of 72.
In 1931, the John Foster Chapter, NSDAR, erected a monument commemorating the American Revolutionary War soldiers from Union County. The monument is a large rough-hewn granite block with a bronze plaque attached. It is located at the historic Union County Courthouse in Monroe, North Carolina. The courthouse is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Historic Union County Courthouse built in 1886.
Photo from chapter archives
Photo of historic Union County Courthouse in header from Wikimedia Commons.
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