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  • 242nd Anniversary Celebration of the Battle of Colson’s Mill

    242nd Anniversary Celebration of the Battle of Colson’s Mill

    11:00 AM-1:00 PM
    July 23, 2022
    Norwood Community Building
    247 W Turner St, Norwood, NC 28128, USA

    The Colson’s Mill Chapter, NC Society Sons of the American Revolution
    Cordially invites you to participate in the
    242nd Anniversary Celebration of the Battle of Colson’s Mill

    Saturday, July 23, 2022, at 11 am

    Location: Norwood Community Building, 247 West Turner St, Norwood, NC 28128

     

    The public is cordially invited to attend a commemoration honoring the men who chased the British out of Yadkin-Pee Dee River Valley.

     

    Tentative Schedule of Events

    11 am                 Registration for Attending Chapters

    NCSSAR Color Guard Presentation of Colors

    Welcome

    Recognition of Guests

    Battle of Colson’s Mill Memorial and Wreath Laying

     

    1130 am             Lunch Buffet (Donations Accepted)

    Guest Speaker: TBA

    Dismissal and Recession

    History of the Battle of Colson’s Mill

    In the spring of 1780 General Cornwallis’ victories in South Carolina had created enough excitement in North Carolina to inspire a loyalist force to emerge in the Yadkin River Valley under the leadership of Colonel Samuel Bryan.

    About June 30 Bryan and nearly 800 men began marching south down the Yadkin-Pee Dee River Valley toward Cheraw, there to join up with British forces.

    American General Griffith Rutherford ordered his adjutant, Colonel William Lee Davidson, and about 200 men to pursue the Tories, and a race ensued down the Yadkin River Valley.  Believing themselves to be out of harm’s way and close enough to Cornwallis’ headquarters to prevent attack, Bryan’s Tories pitched camp near an inn and a mill on the Cheraw Road called Colson’s.

    However, Colonel Davidson had no intention of letting the loyalists escape and on the morning of July 21 he surprised the enemy and drove the loyalists into the woods—and back to their homes.  Davidson thus denied Cornwallis an addition of nearly 1000 troops and effectively broke any remaining loyalist sympathies along the Yadkin River Valley.

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    For more information, contact Colson’s Mill Chapter President Daniel Burleson

    Email  or phone 704-438-1531

    Chapter Page can be found on Facebook

    NC Society, Sons of American Revolution website www.ncssar.org

  • Battle of Colson’s Mill

    Battle of Colson’s Mill

    All day
    July 23, 2022

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Annual NCSSAR Events

See the map below for the locations of annual commemorations that occur throughout the state on or around their anniversary date.

 

1 February 1781 Battle of Cowan’s Ford Huntersville, NC
27 February 1776 Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge Currie, NC
15 March 1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse Greensboro, NC
12 April 1776 Adoption of the Halifax Resolves Halifax, NC
16 May Battles of Alamance County Burlington, NC
20 May 1775 Signing of the Mecklenberg Declaration of Independence Charlotte, NC
20 June 1775 Adoption of the Liberty Point Resolves Fayetteville, NC
20 June 1780 Battle of Ramsour’s Mill Lincolnton, NC
21 July 1780 Battle of Colson’s Mill Norwood, NC
29 July 1781 Attack at the House in the Horseshoe Deep River, NC
2 August 1781 Battle of Rockfish Creek Wallace, NC
14 August 1775 Issuance of the Tryon Resolves Bessemer City, NC
25-27 August 1774 Issuance of the New Bern Resolves New Bern, NC
1 October 1780 Crossing of the Catawba at Greenlee Ford Morganton, NC
7 October 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain Blacksburg, SC
14 October 1780 Battle of Shallow’s Ford Huntsville, NC

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