Alliance for Historic Hillsborough holds its annual Revolutionary War Living History Day on February 15. Although occupied by General Lord Cornwallis in 1781, This colonial town was the war-time capital of North Carolina. But it now has Revolutionary War history to celebrate it is just now discovering. On Feb. 4, award-winning author and storyteller Randell Jones shares new scholarship about the Battle of Kings Mountain (Oct. 7, 1780) which places events in Hillsborough at the beginning and the end of this surprising battle 150 miles distant from Hillsborough, a battle which “turned the tide” of the American Revolution in the South.

Orange County Main Library, 137 W. Margaret Street, Hillsborough, NC
Presentation supported by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council.