Celebration Activities Poster

This poster lists the activities planned for the 1880 Centennial celebration of the Battle of Kings Mountain.

Highlights

• Ten thousand soldiers encamped on the grounds
• President Rutherford B. Hayes, his cabinet members, and the governors of all the states in the Union would attend
• A hundred-foot observatory with a telescope would offer views of the surrounding country
• Mr. Homesley, running the Piedmont House, offered accommodations
• Homesley and Williford, proprietors of the Monumental Restaurant, advertised their services:
  

  If, within, you feel an aching void,
  Come to the “Monumental” and have it destroyed
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  Meals we’ll prepare and serve them right
  At all hours, both day and night.
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  We’ll have fresh Oysters and fresh Fish,
  Fried or stewed, just as you wish.
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  Lunches at all prices,
  And bread in large slices.
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  Come my friends and help us “holler,”
  And get a square meal for half-a-dollar.
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• A Centennial Hop would be given every evening
• A Grand Centennial Bal Masque on October 7, 1880, with Professor Barratti of New Orleans and his Mammoth Orchestra providing music

Printed by E G. Davis’ Print in Henderson, NC