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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Cleveland County, North Carolina
Adjacent to Cleveland County, North Carolina
▶ Burke County (20) ▶ Gaston County (39) ▶ Lincoln County (37) ▶ Rutherford County (32) ▶ Cherokee County, South Carolina (67) ▶ York County, South Carolina (127)
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| | Erected during the centennial
year by Gardner -Webb
University in Honored Memory
of the School's Founders,
Supporters, and Early Educators
buried in the Boiling Springs
Baptist Church Cemetery — — Map (db m159836) HM |
| | Baptist. Founded 1905 as Boiling Springs High School; junior college, 1928-1971. University since 1993. — — Map (db m23547) HM |
| | We did it not for the glory but for God, country and each other forever brothers and sisters — — Map (db m44604) HM |
| | Entered North Carolina
near here. January, 1781,
on his second invasion
of the state, Pursuing
Morgan and Green — — Map (db m16819) HM |
| | Home of Col. William Graham. Site of Tory raid, 1780. Served as Revolutionary War fort. Site is 300 yds. N.E. — — Map (db m23528) HM |
| | North Carolina
Colonized, 1585-87, by
First English Settlers
in America; Permanently
Settled C.1650; First To
Vote Readiness For Independence, Apr. 12, 1776
South Carolina
Formed in 1712 from part
of Carolina, which . . . — — Map (db m16820) HM |
| | Tory force led by Col. Ferguson camped nearby Oct. 4-5, 1780. Two days later Ferguson died in major British defeat at Kings Mountain, 5 mi. SE. — — Map (db m49964) HM |
| | Overmountain Men from Tenn., Va., & N.C. led Patriots to victory over British, Oct. 7, 1780. Site 7 miles south. — — Map (db m34068) HM |
| | Scene of Decisive
British defeat, Oct.
7, 1780. Seven miles
south in S.C. National
Park — — Map (db m17658) HM |
| | Site of decisive British
defeat on Oct. 7, 1780.
National Military park
located 5 mi. southeast
in South Carolina. — — Map (db m17659) HM |
| | Founder: Emily Pruden, educator and philanthropist from Orange, Connecticut. A co-educational boarding and day school, grades 1-12, for children of African descent. Accredited 1923. Home of Mildred Wellmon Elementary School, a historic Rosenwald . . . — — Map (db m108710) HM |
| | Named by Holly Meltons Class of 2000 at Kings Mountain High School to honor the soldiers who fought nearby during the Revolutionary War. — — Map (db m35245) HM |
| | An early settler to Kings Mountain, William Andrew Mauney built a store on this site circa 1870. When Mr. Mauney moved his business to a location in downtown Kings Mountain, he turned the store ninety degrees and added a two story structure to the . . . — — Map (db m17703) HM |
| | Congregation organized by 1791. Cemetery and present building, the church's forth, are one mile west. — — Map (db m23544) HM |
| | In honor of the Confederate Heroes of Cleveland County
1861-1865
Lest We Forget — — Map (db m36238) HM |
| | In honor of the men who served from Cleveland County and in grateful memory, for a grateful people, of these who gave their lives in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
In Memoriam
Korea
Claude Allen
Elmer G. Allen
Arthur Berry, Jr. . . . — — Map (db m23540) WM |
| | Honoring those from Cleveland County, who served in the World War and the following who made the supreme sacrifice
Honor Roll
Harvey N. Allen
Wm. Barrett
E. O. Cabaniss
John Carver
Calvin Cook
Ira A. Crabtree
Broadus . . . — — Map (db m23537) HM |
| | In honor of the men and women who served from Cleveland County and in grateful memory, from a grateful people, of these who gave their lives in World War II
Alexander, William B. Asbury, Eugen M. Barber, David H. Barrins, Carl L. . . . — — Map (db m80476) HM |
| | United States Senator, 1945-54, congressman, governor, N.C. legislator, lawyer, editor. Home is 1 mi, grave 1.2 mi, N.E. — — Map (db m23529) HM |
| | Land, original buildings and boxcar given in loving memory of Quincy Hague Metcalfe by the Gene Metcalfe family.
From this site Mr. Q. H. Metcalfe supervised section crews for the Lawndale Railway and Industrial Company, 1899-1943. — — Map (db m23546) HM |
| | Governor, 1929-33; under Secretary of U.S. Treasury; appointed Ambassador to Great Britain, 1946. Birthplace stands here, grave 300 yds. N. — — Map (db m23533) HM |
| | Confederate captain; legislator; member of conventions of 1868, '75; conservative leader in Reconstruction period. His home was 100 ft. S. — — Map (db m23535) HM |
| | Minister, politician, & author. Film "Birth of a Nation" was based on his novel The Clansman. Grave is 1500 ft. N. — — Map (db m23531) HM |
| | Author of The Mind of the South. Editor & journalist. His grave is located 1600 ft. N. — — Map (db m23534) HM |
| | These grounds are a part of the original 147 acre tract donated by James Love to form the Town of Shelby in 1841. Augustus W. Burton built the original house in 1852; J.A. and Oliver Gardner Anthony overbuilt the 1852 house in 1907. Webbley is named . . . — — Map (db m23543) HM |
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