ORGANIZATION AND
HISTORY:
The Yadkin River Patriots Chapter, Albemarle, North Carolina, was founded
September 26, 1919. The chapter was given its name in honor of the
early settlers of Stanly County who later became its revolutionary
patriots and planted their homes up and down the courses of the Yadkin
River. Thirty-five ladies met to organize a DAR chapter. Most
of these ladies were descendants of patriots of Stanly and Montgomery
Counties. In 1841 Stanly County was taken from Montgomery County and the
Yadkin River was the dividing line.
At the 105th
DAR State Conference our chapter was presented a large silver punch bowl
for the highest percentage net gain in membership in North Carolina for
2004-2005.
The
chapter has a project of identifying the Revolutionary soldiers who lived
in the county or left descendants here, find where they are buried, and
complete information about the soldiers and patriots who aided the war
effort by providing services to the soldiers. We have identified 77
soldiers and have placed American flags on eight of their graves.
We co-hosted a
workshop “Finding Our Ancestors” with the Stanly County Public Library,
Stanly County Genealogical Society, and the Stanly County Historic
Preservation Commission. We had a hands-on program on Genealogy on the
Computer with emphasis on the DAR sites. After a very interesting
program about “Spinning and Carding," we each tried to use the spinning
wheel. We had a program on Colson Skirmish-the only Revolutionary
activity in our county.
The Yadkin River
Patriots Chapter celebrated its 85th birthday with a luncheon at Spring
Arbor. In October we honored our four DAR Good Citizens at a reception for
them, their parents, and guidance counselors. They read their
papers and were presented pins and certificates. We celebrated a
Revolutionary tea party at the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum
and toured the museum that was decorated for Christmas. Ladies wore
Colonial attire with one lady wearing her family`s Stewart tartan plaid.
The top five outstanding American History Essays winners were honored at a
George Washington tea with their parents and
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