Liberty Trail Events

Historic Seneca town featuring a fully reconstructed longhouse and state-of-the-art interpretive museum.

The New Windsor Cantonment Site preserves the final winter encampment of George Washington’s Continental Army, where nearly 7,500 soldiers awaited the war’s end in 1783.

The Abingdon Muster Grounds is a 9-acre park is the site where, in 1780, 400 Virginians joined other patriot militia from the western frontier in a two-week campaign that ended with a critical victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The Abingdon Muster Grounds is a partner site of the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail.

Marker denoting the destruction of the HMS Liberty by colonists in 1769.

The Patriots Take Provisions and Prisoners in a Surprise Attack on a British Supply Depot.

Relocated Mansion of Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton.

Built in 1767, the Chowan County Courthouse is one of the oldest operating courthouses in the country and still serves the North Carolina Supreme Court to this day.

Patriot forces under Andrew Pickens and "Light Horse Harry" successfully rout British forces in Alamance County following Cornwallis' failed attempt to catch Nathanael Greene during the "Race to the Dan"

As part of their Southern Campaign, the British set their sights on taking the vital port of Charleston.

Monticello, “Little Mountain,” was the home from 1770 until his death in 1826, of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States. Jefferson was one of America’s first and finest architects and he created, rebuilt, and revised the house throughout his long life.