Musgrove's Mill Historic Battle Site

Musgrove's Mill Historic Battle Site

Infobox_nrhp | name =Musgrove's Mill Historic Battle Site
nrhp_type = nrhp


caption =
nearest_city= Cross Anchor, South Carolina
locmapin = South Carolina
area =
built =1780
architect=
architecture=
added = March 04, 1975
governing_body = State
refnum=75001708cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Musgrove's Mill Historic Battle Site was the site of the Battle of Musgrove Mill, which took place here on 18 August 1780. The battle occurred at the Musgrove Mill on the Enoree River near Cross Anchor, South Carolina, in what is now Clinton, South Carolina.

The Revolutionary forces routed a combined party of British and Tories at a ford on the river.cite web|url=http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/union/S10817744014/index.htm
title=Musgrove's Mill Historic Battle Site, Union County (S.C. Hwy. 56, Cross Anchor vicinity) |accessdate=2008-05-04|work=National Register Properties in South Carolina listing|publisher=South Carolina Department of Archives and History
]

The site was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1975.Note: A National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination document should be available upon request from the National Park Service for this site, but it appears not to be available on-line from the [http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreghome.do?searchtype=natreghome NPS Focus search site] . An online version should be available from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.] The site also preserves a small waterfall, Horseshoe Falls, as it is a rarity to find substantial waterfalls in this part of the state.

References

External links

* [http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/union/S10817744014/index.htm Musgrove's Mill Historic Battle Site, Union County (S.C. Hwy. 56, Cross Anchor vicinity)] , including 9 photos, at South Carolina Department of Archives and History


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