National Historic Landmark-Second Ft. Crawford Military Hospital

The only remaining building of the fort which was the center of Federal authority in the Old Northwest, this structure is a reconstruction of the post hospital originally built c. 1835.

Archeological remains of the first Fort Crawford were found in ...

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park

On March 15, 1781, the crackling of musket fire, the clamor of headlong cavalry charges, and the cries of the wounded disturbed the serenity of these woods and fields. Coming late in the war, the Battle of Guilford Courthouse was ...

Nation Ford

Original trestle completed 1852

by Charlotte & South Carolina R.R.

on site of ancient crossing

known as the Nation Ford.

Burning by Federals April 19, 1865,

touched off sharp battle with Southern forces

which resulted in Union retreat.

trestle rebuilt after war.

Washed away by flood on July ...