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Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
Operating Hours & Seasons
 



Park Visitor Center

Open
Open All Year 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Closed on New Years Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day)

Phone
(336) 288-1776

Location
The park visitor center and park headquarters are located near the park entrance on New Garden Road (2332 New Garden Road).

Closures
Closed New Years Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Exhibits
Twenty-eight monuments within the park honor Revolutionary soldiers, statesmen, heroes, and heroines. William Hooper and John Penn, two of North Carolina's three signers of the Declaration of Independence, are buried under the Signers' Monument. A large equestrian statue of General Nathanael Greene dominates the monument honoring the soldiers of the Southern Army and its leader.

Available Facilities
Begin your park visit at the visitor center. Here, you will find information on the park and the battle. Rangers or volunteers at the information desk are glad to help you with answers and assistance. Primary facilities in the visitor center are a thirty-two minute live-action theater film, "Another Such Victory" (shown on the hour); a ten-minute animated Battle Map Program explaining the tactics of the battle (shown on the :15 and :45 of the hour); and colorful museum exhibits combining informative text with original artifacts and weaponry. A twenty-minute tactile Battle Map program is available to any sight-impaired visitor. Also in the visitor center is a bookstore (operated by Eastern National) offering visitors over 600 publications and theme-related items for sale on the battle and the Revolutionary War. A narrated automobile tour of the battlefield on CD is also available for sale. Bookstore hours are the same as the visitor center.

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Revolutionary War Drum
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British Soldiers  

Did You Know?
The British considered themselves to be the victors at Guilford Court House. However, they lost more than one-quarter of their army as casualties. Of the 1,900 redcoats, 532 were killed, wounded, captured or missing. The “defeated” American army lost 264 men out of a force of about 4,500.

Last Updated: December 11, 2007 at 09:32 EST