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The Overmountain men under Colonel William Campbell departed Gillespie Gap and proceeded along the ridge to descend the face of the Blue Ridge Mountains to Turkey Cove. A certified section of the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail parallels…

The divided Overmountain militia led by Colonel William Campbell camped the night of September 29, 1780, at Turkey Cove along the bottomlands of Armstrong Creek. This site is not a marked site on the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail. The…

The divided force of Overmountain militia under colonels Shelby and Sevier proceeded toward their rendezvous with Colonel Campbell's men along the Catawba River. The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail follows Paddy's Creek through today's…

The divided force of Overmountain militia men led by colonels Shelby and Sevier camped on the evening of September 29, 1780, in an area known as North Cove. It is in the valley of the North Fork of the Catawba River near the mouth of Hunnycut's Creek…

The divided force of Overmountain Men riding under Shelby and Sevier departed their camp site at North Cove on September 30 and proceeded uphill and over a ridge through today's Pisgah National Forest toward a rendezvous with Campbell's men along the…

The grave of William Campbell is a certified site of the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail. It is on private property, but respectful visitors are welcome. The grave is about 25 miles northeast of Abingdon in Seven Mile Ford at the family…

The Muster Grounds and the W. Blair Keller, Jr. Interpretive Center are located at 702 Colonial Road in Abingdon, Virginia. This site is the northernmost trailhead of the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail.

This beautiful tract of land…

Isaac Shelby lived at his home Sapling Grove in today's Bristol, Tennessee. He was there when he received the message from, Sam Phillips, the released prisoner, about the British advance into North Carolina and the specific threat to come into the…

The Virginia militiamen, mustered under Colonel William Campbell, marched south from the Muster Grounds on Wolf Creek just west of Black's Fort toward the general muster at Sycamore Shoals. They followed their second in command, Major William…

Mary McKeehan Patton learned how to make gunpowder from her father and then operated a powder mill in Pennsylvania with her husband. They sold it and moved south when the prospect of a British invasion made living there dangerous. They built a new…