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The Kings Mountain Historical Museum is a local history museum at 100 East Mountain in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. It is located in the former United States Post Office building, a handsome Colonial Revival structure built in 1940 with funding from a Depression-era works program. The building was used as a post office until 1986.
It was built in 1923 as a private dwelling and donated to the city of Kings Mountain in 1947. From 1947 to about 1962–1963, the building also functioned as a teacherage for the Kings Mountain school system. It is a two-story, five-bay, yellow-brick Southern Colonial Revival-style house.
Originally the settlement was called White Plains, but the city was incorporated on October 16, 1874, and the name was changed.It was decided that "Kings Mountain" would be a more appropriate name since the community was close to the site of the historic 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain in York County, South Carolina, a turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
Central School Historic District is a national historic district located at Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina.It encompasses 52 contributing buildings and 4 contributing structures in a residential section of Kings Mountain.
The city of Kings Mountain is now in the process of deciding what to do with the cabooses as it makes new plans for the space. According to a post made on the city's website last week, the city of ...
West End Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina.It encompasses 100 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a residential section of Kings Mountain.
Kings Mountain National Military Park is a National Military Park near Blacksburg, South Carolina, along the North Carolina/South Carolina border. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The park commemorates the Battle of Kings Mountain , a pivotal and significant victory by American Patriots over American Loyalists during the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War .
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