Posts Tagged as ‘Alamance County’
October 18, 2009
Overhead Illumination at Cum-Park Plaza on Church Street (Hwy 70) in Burlington North Carolina
February 12, 2009
Alamance Battleground, near Alamance North Carolina,Trois
Alamance Battleground, 3 miles south of U.S. Highway I-40 as it runs through Burlington North Carolina, is an old farm field bisected by the old state highway 62. On May 16 1771, two thousand armed local men of the Regulator Movement crossed paths with one thousand men who had answered the call of raising a militia by North Carolina’s [...]
February 11, 2009
Alamance Battleground, near Alamance North Carolina, Deux
Top: Granite Structure with bronze statue of soldier dressed in period clothes. The monument sits on the battleground site in a grove of pine trees, behind the 1880 monument. The granite and bronze structure was created in 1915 and placed on the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, 34 miles to the northwest in Greensboro NC to [...]
February 8, 2009
Alamance Battleground, near Alamance North Carolina
Top: North Carolina State Historical Marker G24, erected in 1939, noting the Battle of Alamance on May 16, 1771.
Middle: Stone Table with Bronze Marker erected in 1941 lays out a short summary of events occuring on May 16, 1771, along with map of battle. Wooden structure and gravel road turnout allows a safe, shaded or [...]
