NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 918

SENATE BILL 398

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR HISTORIC QUAKER MEADOWS IN BURKE COUNTY.

 

Whereas, Quaker Meadows is a historic area in Burke County just northwest of the City of Morganton; and

Whereas, during the French and Indian War, Quaker Meadows was a forward outpost of the frontier and the scene of many skirmishes; and

Whereas, during the Revolutionary Period, Quaker Meadows served as both a headquarters area and a hospital; and

Whereas, the campaign strategy of the Battle of Kings Mountain, a turning point of the American Revolution, was formulated at Quaker Meadows; and

Whereas, Quaker Meadows is the ancestral home of the family of Joseph McDowell, member of the Third and Fifth Congress of the United States, member of the committee to establish the Post Office Department of the United States, and one of the first Jeffersonian Democrats, who is buried atop the hill overlooking the area; and

Whereas, the cemetery atop the knoll contains the graves of many heroes of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 and members of the McDowell. Ervin, Tate and Bynum families; and

Whereas, Quaker Meadows Cemetery Incorporated, in cooperation with the Burke County Historical Society, sponsor a project to place a protective wall around the area, restore the grave sites and grounds, and erect historical markers for visitors; Now, therefore.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the 1979-80 fiscal year for the purpose of restoring Quaker Meadows by placing a protective wall around the area, restoring grave sites and grounds, and placing historical markers telling visitors the historic aspects of the Quaker Meadows area. These monies shall not be expended unless they are matched with fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) in local funding.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1. 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.