Online Tour Stop 10

Grady Monument

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Online Tour Stop 10- The Fallen

“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we forget in time that men have died to win them.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

At best, monuments allow one to forget, to file stories away, like files in a filing cabinet. Only to be retrieved when we need to remember. Moores Creek National Battlefield remembers those who gave their lives so that we may enjoy our freedom today, with two monuments.

The first is the Patriot Monument, or sometimes called the Grady Monument. This monument is a sandstone obelisk placed on the battlefield in 1857, in honor of the first North Carolinian to give his life on a contested battlefield for an American Independence, John Grady.

 

Loyalists Monument

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The park’s second monument is the Loyalist Monument placed in the park in 1909 in honor of those fallen Loyalists. Although the Loyalists fought for the crown, their story represents freedom of choice. The Loyalists marched to Moores Creek Bridge to fight for their families and their loyalty to the King. Without these men fighting a battle here on February 27, 1776, North Carolina may not have not passed the Halifax Resolves. The Halifax Resolves was the document that allowed North Carolina to vote for Independence. North Carolina was the first colony to take this action, as a result of the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge.


















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