Kings Mountain State Park is a South Carolina state park located in the Piedmont

Piedmont (United States)

The Piedmont is a plateau region located in the eastern United States between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the main Appalachian Mountains, stretching from New Jersey in the north to central Alabama in the south. The Piedmont province is a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division...

 region of South Carolina.

This large hilly park includes the Living History Farm, which is representative of a typical early 19th century Piedmont farm. It includes a barn, cotton gin

Cotton gin

A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job formerly performed painstakingly by hand...

, blacksmith, and carpenter shop.

The park also surrounds 65 acres (26.3 ha) Lake York as well as the smaller Lake Crawford.

The park is adjacent to Kings Mountain National Military Park

Kings Mountain National Military Park

Kings Mountain National Military Park is a National Military Park near Blacksburg, South Carolina, along the North Carolina/South Carolina border...

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History

6141 acres (2,485.2 ha) of this park were donated in 1934 by the U.S. Government. An additional 744 acres (301.1 ha) were donated and purchased in 1995. The park was largely developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps

Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D...

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Fees

• Admission, $2.00 adult, $1.25 SC senior citizens, children under 15 are free
• Camping, $17 – $22 per day
• Fishing boat rentals, $10.00 per half day & $20.00 per full day

External links

• Park Finder site
• SCiway site