NC, USA
Kings Mountain State Park (Adjacent Living History Farm)
Landmark
Adjacent SC state park with a living history farm recreating 1780s backcountry settlement life — context for understanding the Overmountain Men as frontier farmers, not professional soldiers, and how their world differed from the tidewater Patriot gentry.
Visiting Today
Address
1277 Park Rd, Blacksburg, SC 29702
Connected Events
Sep 1780
Ferguson's Ultimatum to the Overmountain Settlements
Major Patrick Ferguson, Colonel Isaac Shelby, Colonel John Sevier
Sep 1780
Overmountain Men Muster at Sycamore Shoals
Major Patrick Ferguson
Sep 1780
Overmountain Men Cross the Appalachians
Major Patrick Ferguson
Oct 1780
Oct 1780
Patriot Forces Encircle Kings Mountain
Major Patrick Ferguson, Colonel William Campbell
Oct 1780
Battle of Kings Mountain
Major Patrick Ferguson
Oct 1780
Major Patrick Ferguson Is Killed
Major Patrick Ferguson
Oct 1780
Cornwallis Cancels the North Carolina Invasion
Major Patrick Ferguson