[BuffaloJack]

We had family at the Battle of Cowpens and at the Battle of King’s Mountain.

[bert]

There is a great weekend trip from Abington Virginia to Kings Mountain NC via the Cowpens. It is traversing the National Overmountain Victory Trail that follows the gathering of malitias from the muster ground in Abington to Sycamore Shoals and Fort Watauga in Elizabethton, across the mountain to Marion NC and on to Cowpens and thence Kings Mountain.

It is a National Park Service Historic Trail with a printed guide describing places and events followed by the Overmountain Men in 1780. There is a small visitors center in Abington and a very good museum at Sycamore Shoals State park plus fort Wataugs. The trail goes to the National Battlefield at Cowpens where the Overmountain men readied for the battle at Kings Mountain. There is an NPS National Battlefield at Kings mountain.

It is a great trip through the back roads of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina.

There is a very good NPS staffer at Kings mountain who researched all the various Revolutionary battles. Surprisingly, there are far more in SC than any other colony with New Jersy coming in second.