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By Tom Bosse, September 4, 2022
Overmountain Patriots of the American Revolution Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Cumberland Street (Business Virginia Route 113) at Lee Street on Cumberland Street. |
| | Dedicated to the hundreds of patriots from this area who fought in the American Revolution (1775 - 1783).
When the war in the north came to a stalemate by early 1780, the British turned their military strategy to the South. They believed that . . . — — Map (db m32611) HM |
| On Colonial Road SW east of Reedy Creek Road, on the left when traveling east. |
| | To the south at Craig’s (Dunn’s) Meadow, is the
likely site of the Washington County militia’s
muster ground for the Revolutionary War’s Kings
Mountain Campaign. In Sept. 1780, under the com-
mand of Col. William Campbell the militiamen . . . — — Map (db m46264) HM |
| On West Main Street (U.S. 11) at Colonial Road SW, on the right when traveling north on West Main Street. |
| | From this vicinity went forth a force of Virginians, under the command of Colonel William Campbell, to fight against the British in the Carolinas, 1780. The Virginia troops played an important part in the victory of King's Mountain, South Carolina, . . . — — Map (db m45394) HM |
May. 5, 2024