Location
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Coordinates: 34.8070, -79.1441.
Type: Sight
Tour: Tory War
County: Robeson
Full
You can park anywhere on the shoulder at our first stop. But because it may be overgrown in warmer months, the coordinates mark a narrow mailbox pullout on Old Lowery Road. It should be approached from NC 211 (the direction taken by Patriot forces in the battle). Look for it on the right just after crossing the Little Raft Swamp bridge.
Larger vehicles may not fit. If yours can’t, read down to, and then follow the directions to, the second stop at Dixie Road.
Context
With the encouragement of Continental leaders, in August 1781 the North Carolina government ordered a militia general to drive British occupiers out of Wilmington.
Situation
Tory
Before the campaign could launch, a Loyalist (“Tory”) army captured Gov. Thomas Burke and other Patriot government officials in Hillsborough in September and transported them to Wilmington. This was the army of Col. David Fanning, who was out of action while recovering from his wounds suffered at the