• Azaleas bloom in the lower parking lot at the Cowpens National Battlefield Visitor Center.

    Cowpens

    National Battlefield South Carolina

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  • May 21 Closures and Delays

    The Loop Road will be closed periodically to vehicular traffic today while the contractor applies striping. Some overlooks will be closed for sealing. Expect delays entering and exiting the park where sealant is being applied to one lane.

Park Fun

Coloring Book pages
Look at the color pictures and then print the line drawings and color them.

 
bovine horns and scrimshaw tools on a table
Soldiers used cattle horns to hold gunpowder, as mugs, and as salt holders.  They often etched decorations onto them in a process known as scrimshaw.
 
line drawing of the image above
Click on this picture to print and color it.
 
clouds over the 1932 US Monument outside the Visitor Center
In 1932, the Daniel Morgan chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Cherokee County, South Carolina raised money to buy an acre of land. They deeded it to the federal government, and work began on the monument.  The US Monument was unveiled in April and dedicated on June 14, 1932, and was placed under the management of the War Department.
 
coloring book image of the 1932 US Monument
Print this drawing of the monument and color it.

Did You Know?

camp followers

In the Revolutionary War, some women, known as camp followers, went with their husbands to the battlefields to tend to such chores as cooking, mending, laundry, and nursing the sick and wounded.  Sometimes unmarried women performed these duties for a small wage and half rations.