Kings Mountain National Military Park

This finding aid describes the James B. Felton Papers, part of the NPS History Collection.

Alexander Chesney, an Irish-born South Carolina Loyalist, fought for the Crown in the southern campaigns of the Revolutionary War — wounded and captured at Kings Mountain, then a guide to Tarleton at Cowpens.

In 1780 hundreds of Virginia Patriots gathered at this Abingdon meadow before marching to the Battle of Kings Mountain. Today it is the northern trailhead of the Overmountain Victory trail.

Before the ADA, women who were deaf, blind or used wheelchairs worked as custodians, curators, dispatchers, interpreters and a superintendent in the Park Service, and changed how others saw disability.