On the road again but not very far away we pulled into King’s Mountain State Park which is in South Carolina but you have to drive into North Carolina to get there. Strange. The state park is right next to King’s Mountain National Military Park which was set up to preserve a battlefield where the Patriot (U.S.) forces first beat the British forces in the Revolutionary War. The British forces were mostly South Carolina militia but their commander, a guy named Ferguson, had issued some threats to the locals that if they fought any more against the crown, he would overrun North Carolina and kill everybody and burn their homesteads.
A considerable number of the residents in the area were Scotsmen and Irish and they did not respond well to the threats. They all joined together and slaughtered Ferguson and his forces, killing or wounding about 300 and taking 800 prisoners. Cornwallis (British commander in America) later said this battle was the beginning of the end for the British and it appears he was right.
It was raining on the way here and while we set up but cleared up later, so we went into the town of King’s Mountain, which is in North Carolina, to shop at the local Food Lion. However, by late evening, it started to rain and it is open for business.