Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
Retracing Bright’s Trace
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Today, hikers can walk the historic trail that ‘Backwater men’ or ‘Overmountain men’ took when combating British forces during the American Revolutionary War in 1780. These men traveled the Big Yellow Mountain Gap to Kings Mountain and defeated Major Patrick Ferguson’s troops.
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