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Liberty Point Chapter,
Fayetteville, North Carolina
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History of the Chapter
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On April 12, 1975, twenty-six ladies met at Green Valley Country Club to sign the charter forming Liberty Point Chapter - a Bicentennial Chapter. The chapter is named for the intersection of Bow & Person Streets commonly known as "Liberty Point." It was there that the Cumberland Resolves - also known as the Liberty Point Resolves - were signed in June, 1775. The signers were a group of fifty-five patriots of the region who pledged their fortunes and lives for the cause of liberty. Two of our current members are charter members of the chapter. |
Major Chapter Events
Installed a lighted flag pole at the Liberty Point location in 1976, raised the Flag of the United States on July 4, 1976, after beautifying the site.
Completed the Liberty Point Heritage Quilt with facsimile signatures from the Liberty Point Resolved embroidered around the quilt. A tape recording was made to accompany the quilt telling the story of Liberty Point.
Raised $11,000 to aid in the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and the Ellis Island Foundation for which the chapter received an Award of Excellence from the National Association.
Donated $250 towards the restoration of the Market House.
Donated an Oak tree to the Cape Fear Botanical Garden as a Bill of Rights tree.
Restored a pew in the North Carolina Chapel at Tamassee DAR school.
Celebrated the 200th anniversary of George Washington's death, receiving the NCSDAR Outstanding George Washington Bicentennial Celebration award for their efforts.
In 2002 the Chapter celebrated the 225th anniversary of the establishment of the Flag of the United States with a Flag Retirement Ceremony. This has become an annual event being co-sponsored by the Liberty Point Chapter, the Marquis de Lafayette Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the historic Fayetteville Light Infantry Company. The chapter has continued to sponsor the Flag Retirement Ceremony for six years and will continue to sponsor this event.
This small chapter has had two state officers, one state parliamentarian, one state chorus director, flag pages and state regent's personal page at Continental Congress, and several state chairmen since 1991. The chapter celebrated thirty years as a chapter in the spring of 2005.
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