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Category: Revolutionary War

stage moment from 'Liberty Mountain' drama
July 28, 2014 Appalachia in the media / North Carolina / Revolutionary War / Theatres

‘Liberty Mountain’, new play about Battle of King’s Mountain, set to premier

World premier October, 2014 at the Joy Performance Center in Kings Mountain, NC. The drama will be repeated every summer in the future.

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Overmountain Men depicted by WNC magazine
October 7, 2013 Revolutionary War / South Carolina

The Battle of King’s Mountain—233rd anniversary is today

Excerpt from KINGS MOUNTAIN AND ITS CAMPAIGN. AN ADDRESS BY Col. W. A. Henderson, ON OCCASION OF THE Unveiling of a Monument to its Heroes.

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