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Moores Creek National Battlefield, Currie, NC

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Moores Creek National Battlefield

Walk the History Trail to the rebuilt bridge where North Carolina Patriots stopped a Loyalist broadsword charge in February 1776.

40 Patriots Hall Dr., Currie, NC 28435 · Currie, NC

About Moores Creek National Battlefield

On February 27, 1776, about 1,000 North Carolina Patriots waited behind earthworks as Loyalist troops, many of them Scottish Highlanders with broadswords, charged across a partly dismantled Moores Creek Bridge. It was the first significant Patriot victory of the Revolution. The National Park Service site, 20 miles northwest of Wilmington, has a visitor center with a short film, the History and Tar Heel trails, the earthworks and the reconstructed bridge. There is no entrance fee, and a living history event marks the battle each February.

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