Cowpens National Battlefield
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| Cowpens National Battlefield | |
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| IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape) | |
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| Location: | South Carolina, USA |
| Nearest city: | Gaffney, South Carolina |
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| Area: | 842 acres (3.41 km²) |
| Established: | March 4, 1929 |
| Visitation: | 208,936 (in 2005) |
| Governing body: | National Park Service |
Cowpens National Battlefield is a unit of the National Park Service near Chesnee, South Carolina.
Brigadier General Daniel Morgan won the Battle of Cowpens, a decisive Revolutionary War victory, here over British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton on January 17, 1781.
Established as Cowpens National Battlefield Site March 4, 1929; transferred from the War Department August 10, 1933; redesignated April 11, 1972. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. (Acreage — 841.56 / Federal: 790.9 / Nonfederal: 50.66)
[edit] Reference
- The National Parks: Index 2001-2003. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior.
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