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History isn't left in the past

Second Saturday, Living History Day celebrate Burke County's Colonial roots

By ANGELA KUPER COPELAND

Arts & Entertainment Editor, THE PAPER

Posted 9/2/23

Some 1,400 men on foot and horseback crossed the Catawba River at Greenlee Ford in present-day Morganton on Oct. 1.  The Overmountain Men had come from Abingdon, Va., today’s Elizabethton, …

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