Camp Hill, Glenn Springs, South Carolina
- Camp Hill, Glenn Springs, South Carolina
Camp Hill, near Spartanburg, South Carolina, is the site of a plantation home built by Dr. John Winsmith in 1835. It had originally been the camp site of British Major Patrick Ferguson prior to the Battle of Kings Mountain, October 17, 1780. This was an important Patriot victory in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. Frontier militia overwhelmed the loyalist militia led by Major Ferguson. In "The Winning of the West", Theodore Roosevelt wrote of Kings Mountain, "This brilliant victory marked the turning point of the American Revolution."
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