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National Park Service U.S. Departmentoftlie Interioi 29.86/4:K 61 I Kings Mountain National Military Park Blacksburg, South Carolina ClemsonUniversil Digitized by tine Internet Archive 2012 funding from in witii LYRASIS IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://archive.org/details/kingsnnountainnatOOvinc Kings Mountain National Military Park Cultural Landscape Report Susan Hart Vincent, Historic Land Design Charlotte, North Carolina Cultural Resources Division Southeast Regional Office National Park Service 2003 c a TuBLicDCx:;uj^^ DEPOSITORV 'TEM JUN 9 2004 CLEMSON LIBRARY__ Cultural Resources Southeast Region National Park Service 100 Alabama St. SW Atlanta, GA 30303 (404) 562-3117 2003 CulturalLandscapeReport KingsMountainNationalMilitaryPark Blacksburg,SouthCarolina ^ Kings Mountain National Military Park Cultural Landscape Report Recommended by: (, Chief, Cultural Resources Date Southeast Regional Office ^^ Concurred by: y^j^-vy 2.^ -JwV A-^ ,-Stiperintendeiit, Date Kings Mountain National Military Park PS^:ZS^^orj^ Concurred by: Nc^vAc^ Regional Director, Southeast Region Date Contents List of Figures vii Analysis Figure Credits ix Period of Significance 29 Foreword xi Acknowledgments Evaluation of Integrity 30 xiii National Register Nomination 33 Summary 33 Introduction Managennent Summary Treatment Recommendations 1 Historical Summary 1 Scope of Work and Methodology 1 General Recommendations 35 Battleground Landscape 37 Study Boundary 2 Summary of Findings 2 Commemorative Landscape Features 43 NPS Park Development Landscape 43 Mission 66 Landscape 44 Site History Noncontributing Features 44 Pre-Battlefield Landscape 3 Battle of Kings Mountain (1780) 5 Selected Bibliography Post-Battle Settlement (1780-1931) 9 Commemorative Period (1780-1931) 12 Primary Sources 45 Secondary Sources 46 Kings Mountain National Military Park (1931 to present) 18 Existing Conditions 25 Appendices Appendix A: KIMO Monuments and Markers 49 Appendix B: Chain of Titles 50 National ParkService v vi Cultural LandscapeReport: KingsMountain National MilitaryPark . List of Figures 1 Guillaume de L'Isle's Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours 12. U. S. Monument. 16 du Mississipi. 1718. 13. Frazier's "Sketch of Kings Mountain Battleground," 2. Map of the Kings Mountain Campaign. Sept. 1930. 17 3. Historical Base Map of Battleground Ridge. 14. Ferguson's Grave Marker. 18 4. MillsAtlas, 1825 Map ofYork District, South Carolina. 8 15. CCC Shelter in Kings Mountain State Park. 19 5. Gen. Joseph Graham's Sketch ofthe Battle of Kings 16. Kings Mountain National Military Park and the RDA. 21 Mountain. 9 17. Museum/Administration Building, c. 1940. 22 6. Robert Clendinen's 1000-acre tract including Battleground Ridge. 1827. 10 18. Existing Conditions of Kings Mountain National Military Park 27 7. Major William Chronicle Marker. 13 19. Existing Conditions of Battleground Ridge. 28 8. Benson Lossing's 1849 "View of Kings Mountain Battle-Ground." 13 20. General Treatment Recommendations for Kings Mountain National Military Park. 36 9. Kings Mountain Centennial Association Plat of 1880 Battleground Tract. 14 21. Treatment Recommendations forBattleground Ridge. 38 10. Centennial Monument. 15 22. Mowing Guidelines for Battleground Ridge. 40 1 1. James H. Moser's Illustration of the Kings Mountain 23. Treatment Recommendations for Battleground Views Centennial Celebration. 15 and Vicinity. 41 National ParkService vii