Quaker Meadows
Inscription
Rendezvous for
"Over-Mountain Men" prior to Battle of Kings Mountain,
1780. Home to Joseph &
Charles McDowell, military & political leaders.
Location
AddressNC 181 (Green Street) at NC 126 in Morganton
CityMorganton
CountyBurke
StateNorth Carolina
Coordinates35.754670, -81.718940
Sources
More markers in Burke
Camp Vance
Training camp for state troops, 1861-64, named for Col. Zebulon Vance, war governor, was here.
Waldenses
Valdese, NC
A religious body dating from the Middle Ages.
Andre Michaux
Morganton, NC
French botanist, pioneer in studying flora of western North Carolina.
Waightstill Avery
Morganton, NC
First attorney general of North Carolina, 1777-79, member provincial congresses, colonel in Revolution.
Rutherford College
Valdese, NC
Evolved from private school opened c. 1853 by R. L. Abernethy.