The Colonel Alexander Erwin Chapter was chartered on September 12, 2015, as a chapter of the North Carolina Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. The Chapter is the 25th to be chartered in North Carolina, and supports Burke, Caldwell,  and McDowell counties in North Carolina.  For more information, visit our homepage (https://colalexandererwinsar.org) or email us at

Greenlee Ford on the Catawba River, October 1, 1780. Around 1380 men from Western North Carolina and Southwestern Virginia crossed here on their way to the Battle of Kings Mountain.