Record #:

8953

Author(s):

Collins, Robert L.

Abstract:

Beginning in 1975 and held each September since, a reenactment of the Overmountain Victory March takes place. The march honors a the mountain men who were victorious at Kings Mountain during the Revolutionary War. Armed with a horn, a scroll, and Bible, and dressed in clothing of the time period, the group begins at Sycamore Shoals and marches 160 miles to Kings Mountain.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 47 Issue 3, Aug 1979, p16-17, 33, il, por

Subject(s):

Kings Mountain, Battle of, N.C., 1780