COWETA FALLS CHAPTER HISTORY COWETA FALLS CHAPTER, SAR: HIGHLIGHTS AND KEY FIGURES OF 40 YEARS 1976-2016, with added years to 2019. For a complete history, please visit our webpage:
https://cowetafallssar.org/history.shtml
[Note about sources: Chapter papers now in the Columbus State University Archives contain great scrapbooks from the early 1980s; regrettably, chapter meeting minutes, Annual Re
ports and BOM minutes are missing for most years.]
I. Founding and Early Years
The Bicentennial of the United States-1976-gave impetus to the founding of a chapter of SAR in Columbus. A group of men began meeting at the Bradley Library in Jan. 1976 to consider forming a local Chapter of the Son of the American Revolution. Temporary officers were chosen and recruitment of potential members started. Ten months of action and applications followed. Chapter Name: Why "Coweta Falls"? This is a historic point on the fall line of the Chattahoochee River: the Indian town of Coweta was located nearby; Oglethorpe visited here in 1739 to make a treaty with the Creek Indians; much later the town of Columbus founded (1828) at the Falls. The Falls provided power for the cotton mills and marked the starting point for navigation southward on the River. "Coweta Falls" made a fitting name for the new Chapter. In May, 1976, the organizers presented a "letter of intent" to the Georgia Society and received approval. The flurry of recruiting and membership applications paid off: on 23 October 1976, the President of the Georgia Society presented the Charter of the Coweta Falls Chapter. The first chapter president had a historically echoing name: Lt. Samuel Henry Adams. [Installation Program and Charter Members names are in the Archives.]
