McDowell County
9 places on the trail: 8 highway markers, 1 battlefields and state sites.
Revolution and founding, 1775-1789
- N-41CANE CREEKPrelude to the Battle of Kings Mountain. Site of a skirmish on Sept. 12, 1780, between Loyalists and "Overmountain Men."
- N-26CATHEY'S FORTA rendezvous for the North Carolina militia led by General Griffith Rutherford against the Cherokee in 1776, was one mil...
- N-31FRONTIER FORTEarly outpost against Indians. Used by Gen. Rutherford in expedition against Cherokee, Sept., 1776. Stood nearby and gav...