This Weekend is a Revolutionary Weekend!
Join us as we celebrate the 228th Anniversary of the Overmountain Men’s March through Burke County to the Battle of King’s Mountain.
Quaker Meadows Plantation
Saturday, September 27th :
- OPEN HOUSE with 18th century crafts, colonial games and crafts for children, and tours of the Historic McDowell House (10:00- 5:00)
- Guilford Courthouse Fife & Drum Corps demonstration (10:30)
- Drilling and musket demonstration by Kirkwood’s Delaware Company (11:00)
- Children’s muster (12:00)
- Guilford Courthouse Fife & Drum Corps (12:30)
- Certification ceremony for Quaker Meadows site by Paul Carson, Superintendent, Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail. A presentation on the history of the trail will follow. (1:00)
- THE PATRIOTS OF BURKE COUNTY
Play depicting Burke County’s role in the Revolutionary War performed by students from Western Piedmont Community College (2:00) - Drilling and musket demonstration (2:40)
- Food and drink available for purchase
Sunday, September 28th:
- Colonial Worship Service with Quaker Meadows Presbyterian Church (9:30)
- OPEN HOUSE (1:00 – 4:00)
- THE PATRIOTS OF BURKE COUNTY (2:30)
- Period music with Classic Celtic (3:00)
Tuesday, September 30th:
- Performance by the Over Mountain Victory Trail Association reenactors with story-telling and troop mustering. Bring a picnic and enjoy dinner on the grounds of Quaker Meadows. (5:00) Admission is free.
Directions to Quaker Meadows & McDowell House from I-40:
Take Exit 105 to Morganton.
Turn right onto Sterling Street, which becomes Green Street.
Travel 4.5 miles.
Turn right on St. Mary’s Church Road.
Travel 2/10 of a mile and the McDowell House will be on the left (119 St. Mary’s Church Road).
Historic Burke Foundation
P.O. Box 915
Morganton, NC 28680-0915
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