{"nrhp_refnum":"66000070","name":"Moores Creek National Battlefield","other_names":["See Also:Moores Creek National Battlefield (Boundary Increas"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"25 mi. NW of Wilmington on NC 210","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wilmington","county":"Pender County","state":"NC","lat":34.457854494500054,"lon":-78.10963231472596,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Military","Historic - Non-Aboriginal"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Revolutionary War battlefield park of about 42 acres on State Road 210 near Currie, Pender County, North Carolina, preserving the site of the 1776 Moores Creek Bridge battle, with earthworks, an old colonial road trace and commemorative monuments.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the February 27, 1776 clash between Patriots and Loyalists as one of the critical actions of the opening phase of the American Revolution. The Patriot victory helped prevent a full-scale invasion of the South and preceded North Carolina's April 1776 instruction to its delegates to vote for independence. A later amendment adds historic archeology for the below-ground remains of the original earthworks.","narrative":"Moores Creek National Battlefield, on State Road 210 near Currie in Pender County, North Carolina, preserves the ground where Patriot militia defeated a larger Loyalist force on February 27, 1776. The fight lasted about three minutes at a partly dismantled bridge over Moores Creek. Although minor militarily, the victory helped prevent a full-scale invasion of the South and was followed by North Carolina's April 1776 instruction to its delegates to vote for independence. The park began as a 30-acre state battleground in 1897, passed to the federal government in 1926, and now covers 42.23 acres. It includes the Patriot earthworks, traces of the colonial road, a visitor center, and six commemorative monuments erected between 1857 and 1931. The visible earthworks are rebuilt, but archeological work found below-ground evidence of the original works. A later amendment recognized those buried remains as a site significant for historic archeology.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","D"],"status_note":"Park is open to the public with a visitor center and interpretive devices; the visible earthworks were rebuilt with added soil, and several monuments were moved in 1942 and 1974.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.448876-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/7217/47721706/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/66000070.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000070/66c766f08a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000070/66c766f08a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jack E. Boucher","credit_html":"Jack E. Boucher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man_talking_on_a_stage_into_a_microphone_in_front_a_building_in_Moores_Creek_National_Battlefield._Image_Number_Waso_-_943_Co._(279a057756304813bd8fdab1abe8647e).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"86003649","name":"Moore's Creek National Military Park (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/moores-creek-national-military-park-boundary-increase-86003649/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721706","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moores_Creek_National_Battlefield","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14708039"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/pender-county/moores-creek-national-battlefield-66000070/"}