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<div class="col-md-4 "><a class="email text-decoration-none d-block" href="mailto:Knights1716@aol.com">Knights1716@aol.com</a></div>
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<p>Instituted August, 1716. Reorganized April 15, 1916 and September 9, 2014.</p>
<p><span class="font-italic">Sic juvat transcendere montes -Thus it is delightful to cross the mountains.</span></p>
<p>The Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe was originally conceived and founded by those individuals who engaged in the first expedition west of the Appalachian Mountains by Virginia Lieutenant (Acting) Governor Alexander Spotswood. The venture has historically been considered one of the key exploratory threshold events in the New World, and a precursor of the Westward Movement. Edward Ingle wrote in the Magazine American History in 1887: "As the middle figure in the field of Western discovery between Christopher Columbus kissing the ground of San Salvador in 1492 and the explorers Lewis and Clarke making their way in 1803-1806 to the Pacific Coast, stands Alexander Spotswood, drinking on the summit of the Blue Ridge Mountains a health to his English sovereign."</p>
<p>Originally designated the “Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe” by Spotswood and his companions, the entity was revived and reconstituted in 1916 and formally renamed the “National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe.”</p>
<p>The privilege of membership is extended to lineal or collateral descendants of the original Knights of the Golden Horseshoe, and to others of ineffably worthy Colonial Lineage.</p>
<p>Membership is strictly by invitation only. Please do not correspond with membership inquiries.</p>
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