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Mocksville in Davie County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
 

Daniel Boone
⎯⎯⎯
Greene and Cornwalis

 
 
Daniel Boone / Greene and Cornwalis Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael C. Wilcox, April 5, 2017
1. Daniel Boone / Greene and Cornwalis Marker
Inscription.
Daniel Boone lived 2 miles S.E.
His parents are buried 8 miles S.
—-—
Here passed the armies of Greene
and Corwallis to Guilford C.H.
—-—
This memorial erected by
The Village Improvement Society

 
Erected by The Village Improvement Society.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Patriots & PatriotismSettlements & SettlersWar, US Revolutionary.
 
Location. 36° 0.942′ N, 80° 31.952′ W. Marker is in Mocksville, North Carolina, in Davie County. It is at the intersection of Farmington Road and Highway 801, on the left when traveling north on Farmington Road. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Mocksville NC 27028, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in North Carolina’s Piedmont. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian
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Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Brock Memorial (approx. half a mile away); Site of Olive Branch (approx. 1.4 miles away); The British Army (approx. 2.7 miles away); Historic Huntsville Methodist Church (approx. 4½ miles away); Shallow Ford (approx. 5.4 miles away); Stoneman's Raid (approx. 5½ miles away); Jones Grocery Store (approx. 6 miles away); Fries Manufacturing and Power Co. (approx. 6.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Mocksville.
 
Another marker is no longer nearby. Raiding Huntsville (was approx. 4.6 miles away but has been permanently removed).
 
More about this marker. Also in the Boone Trail Highway Association series.
 
Daniel Boone / Greene and Cornwalis Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael C. Wilcox, April 5, 2017
2. Daniel Boone / Greene and Cornwalis Marker
Daniel Boone / Greene and Cornwalis Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael C. Wilcox, April 5, 2017
3. Daniel Boone / Greene and Cornwalis Marker
Daniel Boone / Greene and Cornwalis Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael C. Wilcox, April 5, 2017
4. Daniel Boone / Greene and Cornwalis Marker
Daniel Boone / Greene and Cornwalis Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael C. Wilcox, April 5, 2017
5. Daniel Boone / Greene and Cornwalis Marker
Burial plot of Squire and Sarah Morgan Boone, at Joppa Cemetery, located north of Mocksville, NC image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, July 15, 2022
6. Burial plot of Squire and Sarah Morgan Boone, at Joppa Cemetery, located north of Mocksville, NC
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on September 14, 2024. It was originally submitted on April 6, 2017, by Michael C. Wilcox of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 603 times since then and 27 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on April 6, 2017, by Michael C. Wilcox of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.   6. submitted on September 13, 2024, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina.
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