On Blue Ridge Parkway (at milepost 328.6), 1.2 miles south of Altapass Highway, on the left when traveling south.
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
On Blue Ridge Parkway (at milepost 328.6), 1.2 miles south of Altapass Highway, on the left when traveling south.
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
Near Parkway Maintenance Road, 0.2 miles west of State Highway 226, on the left when traveling west.
Rededicated on September 29th, 1980
to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the heroic march
of the "Over the Mountain Men."
When American independence looked hopeless
a citizen army marched thru this mountain gap
to challenge British . . . — — Map (db m138466) HM WM
On Blue Ridge Parkway (at milepost 327.3), 0.2 miles east of Altapass Highway, on the left when traveling south.
The scenic mountain highway idea originated long before the Blue Ridge Parkway project began. In 1906, Joseph Hyde Pratt, North Carolina's State Geologist, proposed a toll road following the crest of the Ridge mountains from Marion, Virginia to . . . — — Map (db m140600) HM
Near Parkway Maintenance Road, 0.1 miles west of State Highway 226, on the left when traveling west.
On Friday, September 29, 1780, a large part of the American Army passed this spot, under command of Colonels William Campbell, Isaac Shelby and John Sevier. On their march to the battle of King's Mountain, where the British and Tory forces, . . . — — Map (db m138478) HM WM
On Locust Street west of Crystal Street, on the right when traveling east.
The men of Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina on their way from Sycamore Shoals to King's Mountain encamped on the third night of their march.
September 28, 1780 — — Map (db m234304) HM
