Apple butter, apple cider, applesauce, apple pie! There were few home grown products more useful to the mountain farmer than apples. Cuttings from favorite trees were often taken from place to place when the family moved or children left home. . . . — — Map (db m311797) HM
(preface)
On March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Tennessee into southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina to disrupt the Confederate supply line by destroying sections of the Virginia and Tennessee . . . — — Map (db m208799) HM
Served 1843-1845 as the seat of McDowell County government. Home of Col. John Carson and his sons, Jonathan L., Samuel P., William, & Joseph McD. Now a historical museum. — — Map (db m305665) HM
First Baptist Church
c. 1912
Has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
— — Map (db m268529) HM
[Center)
Dedicated
in honor of all
McDowell County
veterans and to
the memory of
those who gave
their life for
our country
Note: Conflicts and names are listed in the order, from left to right, that they appear on . . . — — Map (db m240417) WM
National Championship winning college basketball coach for University of North Carolina and Member of Basketball Hall of Fame. Born in 1950 in Marion General Hospital, which stands one block north. — — Map (db m77442) HM
Sesquicentennial Testament
On the 5th day of December in the year 2015, AL 6015 Mystic Tie Lodge No. 237 AF & AM in the city of Marion state of north Carolina did celebrate 150 years of masonic service
In God We Trust
Chartered: . . . — — Map (db m268525) HM
The original Charters of Freedom are on
display in The Rotunda at the National
Archives in Washington, D.C.
The Declaration of Independence was adopted July 4, 1776.
The United States Constitution was adopted September . . . — — Map (db m268520) HM
Title: "What Happened To Our School?"
September 19th, 2020
This mural depicts two scenes from Old Fort's effort to fight racial injustice.
Left side
The image on the left is based on a photograph of black school children marching on . . . — — Map (db m202569) HM
This geyser was built in 1912 by George Fisher Baker of New York, as a tribute to his friend Colonel Alexander Boyd Andrews, of Raleigh, North Carolina, and in appreciation for the great public service he rendered in the development and upbuilding . . . — — Map (db m98508) HM
Built ca. 1885 to mark railroad gateway to the Blue Ridge Mts. Restored in 1911 & 1975. Named for A. B. Andrews of Raleigh. Located 2.1 miles north. — — Map (db m97673) HM
Early outpost against Indians. Used by Gen. Rutherford in expedition against Cherokee, Sept., 1776. Stood nearby and gave name to this town. — — Map (db m208372) HM
When called upon to defend their homeland and firesides, men and boys from McDowell County answered the call by the hundreds. From the first musket shot fired at Big Bethel to the last shots fired at Appomattox, men from McDowell County were . . . — — Map (db m284201) WM
Memorial to the Incarcerated Railroad Workers Who Built the Mountain Division of the Western North Carolina Railroad
Look around. See the railroad tracks looping up the mountainside? About 3,000 African American men and a few hundred African . . . — — Map (db m284180) HM
William Bloomfield “Bloom” Rumfelt and his wife, Louise, raised 10 children in this log house, built during the 1880s on a 40-acre farm near present-day U.S. 221 and Mud Cut Road, south of Marion, NC.
When the Rumfelts later moved to Shelby, NC, . . . — — Map (db m211001) HM
The 1950 children's demonstration foreshadowed later Civil Rights struggles, happening only two years after Martin Luther King, Jr. was ordained as a minister, and seven years before he formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to fight . . . — — Map (db m284131) HM
Thomas and Martha Allison built and lived in this log cabin along Cane Creek, east of Old Fort, in the late 1860s, after Thomas returned home from the Civil War as a Confederate veteran.
About 1880, the Allisons moved to Colorado, and William and . . . — — Map (db m211007) HM
(preface) On March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Tennessee into southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina to disrupt the Confederate supply line by destroying sections of the Virginia and . . . — — Map (db m284209) HM
The 8000-acre Curtis Creek tract before you was the first parcel of land acquired under the Weeks Act. This act was signed by President Taft in 1911 and authorized buying parcels of land that would become eastern National Forests. This tract also . . . — — Map (db m183160) HM
The Mountain Gateway Museum and Heritage Center is dedicated to bringing life to the wonderful history of the “Old North State”. The museum, open year round, focuses on history from the pioneer era through the early 20th century. A variety of . . . — — Map (db m211004) HM
This marks the site of the old Indian fort built A.D. 1756 the western outpost of the United States and of North Carolina until 1776 from which this town was named — — Map (db m208371) HM
By the late 1700's, European settlers had come into the Catawba Valley. In 1763, the Treaty of Paris mandated that colonial settlements would stop east of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Cherokee towns to the west would be secure. However in 1772, . . . — — Map (db m282979) HM
The hills and valleys before you may seem quiet, rounded with age and blanketed with thick forests. But if you listen closely between the distant sounds of a train whistle, you may hear the sounds of fiddles, banjos and strings bands that still ring . . . — — Map (db m183172) HM
The old Clinchfield Railroad loops and tunnels through the Blue Ridge Mountains before you. Construction of this difficult section began in 1905 when 4,000 workmen, mainly Russian, German and Italian immigrants, began blasting and hammering their . . . — — Map (db m123180) HM
