Freedom 250: Overmountain Victory Commemoration Open Encampment (Museum of North Carolina Minerals- Milepost 331)

The Blue Ridge Parkway's Museum of North Carolina Minerals hosts a living-history encampment marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the Overmountain Victory campaign. The event recalls the September 1780 march of militia from North Carolina, Tennessee, and other states during the Revolutionary War.