President: Herbert
Hoover 
Start Point:
Blacksburg - 10km Walk (YR1218) Jan 2 - Dec
31
South Carolina
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President: Herbert
Hoover |
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Start Point:
Blacksburg - 10km Walk (YR1218) Jan 2 - Dec
31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-NC, Tarheel State Walkers Volkssport Association |
| History Lesson: At Kings Mountain National Military Park on October 7, 1930, Herbert Hoover spoke to a crowd of 70,000 people at the 150th anniversary of the battle. He is quoted on one of the signs installed near where he stood as saying: "Here less than a thousand men, inspired by the urge of freedom, defeated a superior force.... This small band of patriots turned back a dangerous invasion well-designed to separate and dismember the united colonies. It was a small army and a little battle, but it was of mighty portent. History has done scant justice to its significance, which rightly should place it beside Lexington and Bunker Hill, Trenton and Yorktown, as one of the crucial engagements in our long struggle for independence." Hoover was the first President of the United States to visit a Revolutionary War battlefield in the South. His words were broadcast by radio coast-to-coast in the United States—and to Great Britain. Within a year of his visit, Congress established Kings Mountain National Military Park. |
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President: Woodrow
Wilson |
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Start Point:
Columbia - 10km Walk (YR598) Jan 1 - Dec
31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0046, Asheville Amblers |
| History Lesson: Woodrow Wilson's boyhood home at 1705 Hampton Street, during his teenage years. It is now a museum. |
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Updated March 14, 2005