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MAP: Section 11.1: Modern interstates and cities.
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MAP: Section 11.1: Modern interstates and cities. This section describes some of the modern interstates and large cities seen on a map of the Overmountain Victory Trail. This will give you a better understanding of the length of the trail, where it is located, and what else can be experienced while exploring the trail. In the bottom right corner of the map is Charlotte, North Carolina. Interstate 77 enters the city from the south, from Columbia, South Carolina, and continues north out of the city along the right edge of the map skirting the east side of Lake Norman and continuing through Statesville, North Carolina, Jonesville, North Carolina, and Elkin, North Carolina, before the highway exits the map along the upper right side. Elkin, North Carolina is the beginning of the eastern portion of the trail. Just south of Charlotte, the state border between North Carolina and South Carolina moves west along the bottom border of the map. Moving up the left side of the map halfway, interstate 40 enters the map coming from Asheville, North Carolina, continuing to the east through the middle of the map. Interstate 40 passes through Morganton, North Carolina, near the center of the image, where the eastern and western portions of the trail meet. Interstate 40 continues east through Hickory, North Carolina, and further east through Statesville, North Carolina at the eastern edge of the map where it crosses interstate 77, and continues off the map towards Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From Charlotte again, in the bottom right corner of the map, Interstate 85 enters Charlotte from off the image from the east, and moves through the city westward, crossing the Catawba River and South Fork Catawba River as it enters Gastonia, North Carolina. Interstate 85 continues west through Gastonia, turning southwest and passing south of the city of Kings Mountain, North Carolina and Crowder's Mountain State Park. Interstate 85 then continues southwest entering South Carolina and passing northwest of Kings Mountain National Military Park, where the trail ends, and Kings Mountain State Park. As Interstate 85 continues to move southwest through South Carolina, it reaches the northwestern side of Gaffney, South Carolina, when the trail follows the interstate for a short distance. Interstate 85 passes to the south of Cowpens National Battlefield, a park that the trail passes through. Interstate 85 then exits the bottom of the map where it is labeled that it continues towards Spartanburg, South Carolina (not pictured). Coming up from the bottom of the map from Spartanburg, South Carolina is interstate 26, heading to the northwest towards Asheville, North Carolina. As interstate 26 enters North Carolina, it passes to the east of Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Interstate 26 exits the map on its lower left side, but returns higher up on the left side as it curves from northwest to northeast, leaving Asheville, North Carolina, moving through Cherokee National Forest and into Johnson City, Tennessee, then turning to the northwest again towards Kingsport, Tennessee off the upper left side of the map. Near the upper left corner of the map interstate 81 enters the map from Kingsport, Tennessee (not pictured), and continues northeast through Bristol, Tennessee and Bristol, Virginia, through Abingdon, Virginia, where the western portion of the trail begins. Interstate 81 continues northeast through Abingdon, Virginia, and off the map towards the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
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This section describes some of the modern interstates and large cities seen on a map of the Overmountain Victory Trail.
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3 minutes, 59 seconds
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