Things to Do Near Sassafras Mountain Sassafras Mountain is the best spot in South Carolina to take in the mountain view. It’s the highest point in South Carolina, and the observation tower at Sassafras Mountain offers a 360 degree view – from the Mountains of North and South Carolina all the way to the Piedmont… Continue reading Things to Do Near Sassafras Mountain
Category: Historic Site
Buford’s Massacre Site – The Waxhaws
Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to Buford’s Massacre Site in The Waxhaws. One of the most pivotal battles of the Southern Campaign during the American Revolution didn’t result in a Patriot victory. In fact the Battle of the Waxhaws which took place on May 29, 1780 in Lancaster,… Continue reading Buford’s Massacre Site – The Waxhaws
Camden Revolutionary War Site SC
Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to the Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site in South Carolina. Camden and The Southern Campaign The Spring and Summer of 1780 were a dark time for Continentals seeking independence from the British Crown. In the North, the British had fought to a standstill.… Continue reading Camden Revolutionary War Site SC
President James K. Polk Historic Site
Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to the President James Polk Birth place in Pineville, NC. North Carolina native and 11th US President James Polk, or “Young Hickory” as he was later known because of this association with fellow Carolinian Andrew Jackson, more than anyone else embodies the idea… Continue reading President James K. Polk Historic Site
Landsford Canal State Park
Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to Landsford Canal State Park in South Carolina. Landsford Canal History Along this rocky stretch of the Catawba River sits a tract of land that that has played a vital role in the lives of the surrounding people for over a thousand years.… Continue reading Landsford Canal State Park
Kings Mountain National Military Park
Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to Kings Mountain National Military Park. The Battle at Kings Mountain Lord Charles Cornwallis sipped his morning tea as he read his correspondence. He enjoyed these morning respites as it gave him time to reflect on the past few weeks. It had been… Continue reading Kings Mountain National Military Park
Ninety Six National Historic Site
Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to Ninety Six National Historic Site. Decades before Richard Pearis founded Greenville in 1770, another town was the largest and most important “metropolis” in Upstate South Carolina. That town was Ninety Six. As the most westerly English settlement from the coast, Ninety Six… Continue reading Ninety Six National Historic Site
Historic Johnson Farm
Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to The Historic Johnson Farm in Hendersonville. In the early 19th century Western North Carolina was a completely different place. Where today you’ll find high end housing developments and resorts catering to out of state visitors, you once had subsistence farmers working tracts… Continue reading Historic Johnson Farm
Hagood Mill Historic Site
Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to Hagood Mill Historic Site in Pickens South Carolina. Grist Mills and Rural Life Grist mills were once a vital part of rural life in America. Like the local mercantile, the grist mill was a place where distant neighbors would get together and… Continue reading Hagood Mill Historic Site
Bechtler Mint Site Historic Park
Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to Bechtler Mint Site Historic Park in Rutherfordton, North Caolina. Carolina Gold Rush Mulberry Sellers and Matthew Stephenson were right. There really is “gold in them thar hills”. In 1799 the son of a farmer found a yellow rock in the Little Meadow… Continue reading Bechtler Mint Site Historic Park