The Marquis de Lafayette chapter invites you to the 237th Anniversary of Battle of the House in the Horseshoe ceremony on Saturday, August 4, 2018, in Sanford, NC. Event details as the date gets closer.

In spring and summer, bright flowers surround this plantation house named for its location on a horseshoe bend in the Deep River. The house (ca. 1770) was owned by Philip Alston, whose band of colonists seeking independence from Britain was attacked here in 1781 during the American Revolution by British loyalists led by David Fanning. Later, four-term governor Benjamin Williams lived in the house, which now features antiques of the colonial and Revolutionary War eras.

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The Lower Cape Fear Chapter will be conducting compatriot grave markings for three former North Carolina Society State Presidents:

1971-1972 * Capt. Robert Strickland Beckham- Lower Cape Fear, Wilmington National Cemetery, NC
1981-1983 * The Rev. Walser H. Allen, Jr.-Lower Cape Fear-Oleander Memorial Gardens, Wilmington, NC
1991-1993 * CDR Lee Warwick Porter, Jr., USN (Ret)-Lower Cape Fear-1^st Baptist Church, Wilmington, NC

The ceremonies will be consecutive and will start at the 1st Baptist Church of Wilmington at 9:30 AM.  The participants will carpool/caravan to the Wilmington National Cemetery and then to Oleander Memorial Gardens.

The chapter will then reconvene at The Olympia Restaurant to eat and conduct chapter business at 11:30 AM

Donations will be accepted, make checks payable to LCF Chapter – NC SAR, and mail to:
John O. Thornhill
1314 W. Charity Rd
Rose Hill, NC 28456-8512

Thank you!

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This event will be at 10 am at Tryonota Volunteer Fire Department, 2577 Tryon Courthouse Road, Bessemer City, NC.

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