Camp Hill, near Spartanburg, South Carolina, is the site of a plantation home built by Dr. John Winsmith in 1835.[1][2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.[3]
It had originally been the camp site of British Major Patrick Ferguson prior to the Battle of Kings Mountain, October 17, 1780. This was an important Patriot victory in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. Frontier militia overwhelmed the Loyalist militia led by Major Ferguson. In The Winning of the West, Theodore Roosevelt wrote of Kings Mountain, "This brilliant victory marked the turning point of the American Revolution."
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- ↑ Fant, Mrs. James W. (May 16, 1970). "Camp Hill" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/spartanburg/S10817742004/S10817742004.pdf. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ↑ "Camp Hill, Spartanburg County (S.C. Hwy. 215, Glenn Springs vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/spartanburg/S10817742004/index.htm. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
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