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Quaker Meadows
Plantation is the restored 1812 Catawba Valley Plantation House of Captain
Charles McDowell, Jr. It was the site of the 1780 gathering of Overmountain Men,
patriots that marched to Kings Mountain and helped defeat the British in the
Revolutionary War. This authentically furnished house museum interprets
antebellum culture in Burke Country from that era.
Website:
Quaker Meadows
Plantation
Location:
Morganton NC
Distance: 1 hour from Asheville
Address: 119 St. Mary Church Rd., Morganton, NC 28655
Telephone: 828-437-4104
Hours: Sunday 2-5 p.m. or by appointment
Fees: Small admission fee for adults
Allow: 1 hour
Of Note: Listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Nearby:
Old Burke Co. Courthouse Heritage Museum,
Burke Arts
Council Jailhouse Gallery,
North Carolina School For The Deaf Museum,
Senator Sam J. Erwin Jr. Museum
Directions: From Asheville, take I-40 East to Exit 100. Turn left onto Hwy. 181
and go two blocks to St. Mary’s Church Rd. Turn right and the plantation will be
on the left.
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