Moores Creek National Battlefield

Moores Creek National Battlefield
The reconstructed bridge at Moores Creek
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Location	Pender County, North Carolina, United States
Nearest city	Wilmington, North Carolina
Coordinates	34°27′29.6″N 78°06′37.1″W / 34.458222°N 78.110306°W / 34.458222; -78.110306
Area	88 acres (36 ha)[1]
Established	June 2, 1926[2]
Visitors	48,406 (in 2005)
Governing body	National Park Service
Website	Moores Creek National Battlefield
Moore's Creek National Military Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Nearest city	Wilmington, North Carolina
Area	44.3 acres (17.9 ha)
Built	1776
NRHP reference No.	66000070[3] (original) 86003649[3] (increase)
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966
Boundary increase	February 13, 1987

Moores Creek National Battlefield is a battlefield managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The park commemorates the 1776 victory of a thousand patriots over about eight hundred loyalists at Moore's Creek. The battle dashed the hopes of British provincial governor Josiah Martin for regaining control of North Carolina for the Crown. The loyalist defeat simultaneously ended British plans for an invasionary force to land in Brunswick Town. The Second Continental Congress voted to declare independence from the British on July 4, 1776, shortly after the battle; which took place in the Wilmington area near Currie in Pender County in southeastern North Carolina. The national military park was established on June 2, 1926, and was redesignated as a national battlefield on September 8, 1980.