Hidden in plain sight and nearly lost beneath modern development lies what may be one of the most critical and forgotten sites of the American Revolution in the South. Just north of Charlotte — nestled between the Sugar Creek battlefield and Cowan’s Ford — a remarkable series of features have been found:

🪨 Photo Evidence:

Earth Works

Slopped hills 

Strategic location at highest point of the north south east west cross roads where the British could be trapped. 
A working stone bowl still in place, embedded into a large granite outcropping — a signature of Catawba tribal craftsmanship.

🌳 Land Markers:
A crooked, unusually bent tree towering 150 feet tall, likely used as a trail marker or boundary sign, consistent with Indigenous trail-tree methods.

🪨 Engineered Stonework:
Massive linear-cut stone features visible just beneath the leaf litter — strongly suggestive of intentional shaping, not natural erosion.

🪖 Proximity to Revolutionary Sites:
This camp lies directly in the line of Revolutionary War troop movements. Families such as the Alexanders, Torrences, and others occupied nearby homesteads. This site was perfectly situated on the Great Wagon Road, guarding the gateway between Philadelphia, Charlotte, and Charleston.

🦅 Lost Stronghold, Reawakened:
British cavalry plates, period artifacts, and Native American signs all converge here — at what may have been a combined Native–Patriot defensive camp, now partially buried beneath apartment complexes.