Working Farm (Historical)

One of the coolest things at the Kings Mountain State Park was a reproduction of a working 19th Century farm. Most of the building were original structures that were dismantled and transported to this location. There was no one official on site the day we were there, so I couldn't get information on some of the buildings. So here are photos.

We think this was housing for a farm worker. It was not the main house.

Barn and smithy.

For the rendering of sorghum into syrup.

Small vineyard.

This was a very impressive cotton gin. Apparently in working condition.

Stairs to top floor of the gin.

Under the cotton gin building. Wagon for transport of both raw cotton and processed cotton bales.

Cotton gin on right, fallow field in center, corn crib on right.

This would have been the main house of a prosperous cotton farm.

We could find no indication of what this building could have been. I suspect it was representative of a springhouse or well housing.

Kings Mountain National Military Park

We have a lot of local parks I've rarely visited; and a few that I've never seen, at all. One that I've been to a couple of times is the Kings Mountain National Military Park where an important Revolutionary War battle took place. And right next to it is the Kings Mountain State Park (SC) when I had never visited. So today we went to see them.

Just now I am exhausted and very sleepy. I'll post more photos and such, and details tomorrow.

National Park entrance.

The lake.

Interesting dam design. No spillway. Instead, the excess water just overtops the dam and creates a very nice waterfall.

I don't know if this was built by the CCC, but it looks like something they'd have built. It's a bath house at the lake and appears to be abandoned now. We looked in the windows and could see that all of the plumbing had been removed.

The office of Kings Mountain STATE Park. Not the National Park.