McDowell County Confederate Memorial, Old Fort
The memorial is a stone veneer of uncoursed masonry standing three to four feet high on a concrete base. The top holds a polished metal tablet set at an incline.
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McDowell County Confederate and the Col. A.B. Andrews memorials |
View of the park with the geyser and other markers and memorials
MCDOWELL County / 1861-1865 / WHEN CALLED UPON TO DEFEND THEIR HOMELAND AND FIRESIDES, MEN AND BOYS / FROM MCDOWELL COUNTY ANSWERED THE CALL BY THE HUNDREDS. FROM THE FIRST / [Undecipherable] AT BIG BETHEL TO THE LAST SHOTS FIRED AT APPOMATTOX, / [Undecipherable] MCDOWELL COUNTY WERE THERE. BANDED TOGETHER BY HISTORY, THEY / [Undecipherable] THE FOLLOWING REGIMENTS IN WHAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS / [Undecipherable] THE GREATEST ARMY EVER ASSEMBLED”… / ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA / 22ND NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COMPANY B / 11th NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COMPANY K / 35TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COMPANY B / 49TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COMPANY A / [Undecipherable] CAROLINA TROOPS, 6TH NORTH CAROLINA CAVALRY / ARMY OF TENNESSEE / 58TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COMPANY F / [Undecipherable] THE MEMORY OF OVER 40,000 NORTH CAROLINIANS, / [Undecipherable] 225 OF MCDOWELL COUNTY’S OWN THAT MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE / FOR A CAUSE THEY FELT WAS JUST. / “LEST WE FORGET”
Town of Old Fort
October 15, 2016
35.651300 , -82.241360 View in Geobrowse
“Andrews Geyser,” The Historical Marker Database, HMdb.org, (accessed August 23, 2023) Link
“Historical Structures Survey Report-Andrews Geyser,” North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, June 7, 2023, (accessed October 2, 2023) Link
“SVC, Re-enactors to Dedicate New Confederate Memorial,” The McDowell News (Marion, NC), October 14, 2016
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Stone, masonry, metal
Sons of Confederate Veterans
The approximate 10 acre park with the memorial is on Mill Creek Road (County Road 1407) several miles outside of Old Fort, NC.
Four other markers and memorials dot the open grass covered landscape near Andrews Geyser. Present are a North Carolina Civil War Trails information plaque about the Swannanoa Gap Engagement in 1865, a memorial to the history of Andrews Geyser, a memorial to the Col. A.B. Andrews, and a memorial to Incarcerated Railroad Workers.