Shelby at Lincolnton

[Shelby Lion]

Are y'all speaking of Salisbury's pressbox, or Lincolnton's?

I was referring to the Salisbury pressbox...Lincolnton has a nice stadium.... Salisburys pressbox is like offset

And Kidd is right, Lincolnton is COLD right there with that river behind you.... but the coldest I have ever been is up at Hibriten when they played Tuscola back the in the early 2000's ..it was a different bone chilling cold... I left at halftime because freezing to death

 

[Burns85Bulldogs]

I was referring to the Salisbury pressbox...Lincolnton has a nice stadium.... Salisburys pressbox is like offset

And Kidd is right, Lincolnton is COLD right there with that river behind you.... but the coldest I have ever been is up at Hibriten when they played Tuscola back the in the early 2000's ..it was a different bone chilling cold... I left at halftime because freezing to death

Fun fact.... On June 20, 1780, a Revolutionary War battle between local Tories and Patriot Militia took place on the hill right across the road from the stadium... up where the school buildings are. The South Fork River was damned up and the where the stadium is was the pond for Ramsours Mill. As the battle ended, many of the defeated Tories were shot or drowned as they tried to swim across the pond to escape.

Most folks are completely unaware that this happened right there in little ol' Lincolnton. Google The Battle Of Ramsours Mill for more info....

 

[amaidendevil]

I was referring to the Salisbury pressbox...Lincolnton has a nice stadium.... Salisburys pressbox is like offset

And Kidd is right, Lincolnton is COLD right there with that river behind you.... but the coldest I have ever been is up at Hibriten when they played Tuscola back the in the early 2000's ..it was a different bone chilling cold... I left at halftime because freezing to death

Two coldest nights was playoff game at Brevard and playoff game at Ashe County I believe wind-chill at Ashe was negative 8 degrees and regular temperature was like 10 degrees.

 

[Lincolnton]

Fun fact.... On June 20, 1780, a Revolutionary War battle between local Tories and Patriot Militia took place on the hill right across the road from the stadium... up where the school buildings are. The South Fork River was damned up and the where the stadium is was the pond for Ramsours Mill. As the battle ended, many of the defeated Tories were shot or drowned as they tried to swim across the pond to escape.

Most folks are completely unaware that this happened right there in little ol' Lincolnton. Google The Battle Of Ramsours Mill for more info....

Burns 85Bulldogs, thanks for the information on the stadium area. My Mother said she and her sisters would pick blackberries around there when she was a girl, and that there was a piece of the water-wheel from Ramsour’s Mill, still there, then. This would have been a hundred years ago, early and mid 1920’s…You can still walk down to the creek behind the practice field/lower parking area, and see the rock formations that held the wheel.

The county historian said there was a deep divide in political differences, then, and even between neighbors and family members…Something almost ominous about the thought of it. Makes me wonder if anything like that is possible, again.

 

[AlwaysAWolf]

I have a hunch that if you all would have won the game, these comments would have been way more tapered than they are now. Had you won by 2 TDs or more, they may even had been 5% of what they are now.

It's like a guise for sore feelings about the L. Yall took the L, wolves had a better game plan and ya'll couldn't stop their offense. If you had your own personal gaping hole of an entrance reserved for the team with complimentary water and gaterade and care boxes with tiny footballs and small wolf figurines, none of that would have won you the game.

You got out played by your fellow cowards when it counted, and you have some compeition in this little pitty pat powder puff league of micro gnats and giant dust mites.

First among cowards!
*wolf howls 17 times

 

[AlwaysAWolf]

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Go Wolves!

 

[AlwaysAWolf]

They're a really good team for the class.....but that is crazy talk if someone says they are. The 93 Lincolnton team is one of those rare teams that had the two best athletes in Linc. history on the same team plus a bunch of other stellar athlete/players. Gonna be hard to get close to being near that team unless Lincolnton gets to be 5-6a size at least.

93 was different.

I was referring to the Salisbury pressbox...Lincolnton has a nice stadium.... Salisburys pressbox is like offset

And Kidd is right, Lincolnton is COLD right there with that river behind you.... but the coldest I have ever been is up at Hibriten when they played Tuscola back the in the early 2000's ..it was a different bone chilling cold... I left at halftime because freezing to death

I thought that's what you meant, Kidd made me question. Was about to ride up and look from the cold side, lol.

 

[AlwaysAWolf]

Fun fact.... On June 20, 1780, a Revolutionary War battle between local Tories and Patriot Militia took place on the hill right across the road from the stadium... up where the school buildings are. The South Fork River was damned up and the where the stadium is was the pond for Ramsours Mill. As the battle ended, many of the defeated Tories were shot or drowned as they tried to swim across the pond to escape.

Most folks are completely unaware that this happened right there in little ol' Lincolnton. Google The Battle Of Ramsours Mill for more info....

We honored the event by building schools all over it, lol. A few interesting graves, one mass, are with a few yards of the buildings.

 

[Lincolnton]

We honored the event by building schools all over it, lol. A few interesting graves, one mass, are with a few yards of the buildings.

The common grave on the hill behind the press box is only maybe 100 feet or so from the West Wing of the old building. You might remember, must’ve been sometime in the 1980s probably the early 1980s there was construction and grading going on in that area.

The principal went out and told the foreman he had heard since he was a child that there was a common grave in that area causing the construction to be halted until they could get people here to investigate.

Seems like some engineers came here from Asheville along with some professors, anthropologist, I suppose. They took soil samples and dug down in it. Heard they didn’t go very far until they began noticing a pattern of large stones. These guys said the stones had been placed there to keep animals from digging into the ground and carrying the bodies away which was typical back then for that kind of grave.

Also was a large elm tree beside of it which they said was probably put there for shade. Heard there were samples of this tree to determine if the age of it coincided with the time-frame. The tree was knocked down during a storm not so many years ago. Remember something maybe in the paper about very high acidity levels in the soil.
‘Don’t remember anything being said about how far they went into the grave. It’s a little dim, but I’m thinking like the newspaper reported approximately 70 bodies could have been in that one spot.
After that, the grave was marked.

 

[Burns85Bulldogs]

We honored the event by building schools all over it, lol. A few interesting graves, one mass, are with a few yards of the buildings.

I always thought it was interesting that there was one grave right in the middle of the elementary school playground.

 

[Lincolnton]

I always thought it was interesting that there was one grave right in the middle of the elementary school playground.

The grave beside of the playground is two patriot officers, and the one up on the hill from the common grave are two loyalist officers.
The county historian one of the patriot officers was killed near the corner of what is now N.Aspen St. & East Dixon St. across from the Tennis courts (now), and another was killed near the corner of what is now Battleground Rd. & Linwood Dr. ( Believed to be one of the officers buried next to the playground). One of the marked graves is on the property behind the practice field/lower parking lot. There’s quiet a story behind him, but I better not put it on here.

 

[Burns85Bulldogs]

One of the marked graves is on the property behind the practice field/lower parking lot. There’s quiet a story behind him, but I better not put it on here.

You talking about "Crooked Nose" Shuford?

 

[Burns85Bulldogs]

The grave beside of the playground is two patriot officers, and the one up on the hill from the common grave are two loyalist officers.
The county historian one of the patriot officers was killed near the corner of what is now N.Aspen St. & East Dixon St. across from the Tennis courts (now), and another was killed near the corner of what is now Battleground Rd. & Linwood Dr. ( Believed to be one of the officers buried next to the playground). One of the marked graves is on the property behind the practice field/lower parking lot. There’s quiet a story behind him, but I better not put it on here.

Also of Lincolnton historical note.... Up at St Lukes Lutheran Church, there are a couple of interesting graves. One is a Yankee soldier killed in Lincolnton right at the end or very shortly after the end of the Civil War and the other is a man by the name of Lorenzo Ferrer. There is very compelling evidence that this gentleman was the infamous pirate Jean Lafitte.

 

[Lincolnton]

You talking about "Crooked Nose" Shuford?

Yes, that’s him, and big props to you. Thought the only ones who knew that is us locals. The story around here was that after the battle, families attempted to identify the dead, many of whom were bludgeoned, and that his family, maybe his daughter-in-law identified him by the bend in his nose. Was told he was bludgeoned beyond recognition. It's how his nose was originally broken was what I wasn't sure about putting on here. Again, hats off to you for your knowledge.

Incidentally, his gravestone, now, is fairly new. When I was a kid, it was an old very worn stone, barley legible. Sometimes it had fallen over, and sometimes somebody would prop it up.

 

[Burns85Bulldogs]

Yes, that’s him, and big props to you. Thought the only ones who knew that is us locals. The story around here was that after the battle, families attempted to identify the dead, many of whom were bludgeoned, and that his family, maybe his daughter-in-law identified him by the bend in his nose. Was told he was bludgeoned beyond recognition. It's how his nose was originally broken was what I wasn't sure about putting on here. Again, hats off to you for your knowledge.

Incidentally, his gravestone, now, is fairly new. When I was a kid, it was an old very worn stone, barley legible. Sometimes it had fallen over, and sometimes somebody would prop it up.

Well, I'm originally from Upper Cleveland of course, but I've lived on the Lincolnton/Pumpkin Center side of Iron Station for quite a few years now. I'm into the history stuff so I have a little bit of knowledge about stuff. And yeah... I know how his nose was broken...

 

[Lincolnton]

Also of Lincolnton historical note.... Up at St Lukes Lutheran Church, there are a couple of interesting graves. One is a Yankee soldier killed in Lincolnton right at the end or very shortly after the end of the Civil War and the other is a man by the name of Lorenzo Ferrer. There is very compelling evidence that this gentleman was the infamous pirate Jean Lafitte.

You're obviously a local history buff... A professor at Pfeiffer University, who is originally from Lincolnton did a book a couple of years ago about her efforts to prove that Lorenzo Ferrer is the Pirate Jean Lafitte.

Lincolnton was a refugee center at the end of the civil war. We have an odd history. Heard that's why Catawba County isn't part of us, anymore.

 

[LHSfaninVA]

The grave beside of the playground is two patriot officers, and the one up on the hill from the common grave are two loyalist officers.
The county historian one of the patriot officers was killed near the corner of what is now N.Aspen St. & East Dixon St. across from the Tennis courts (now), and another was killed near the corner of what is now Battleground Rd. & Linwood Dr. ( Believed to be one of the officers buried next to the playground). One of the marked graves is on the property behind the practice field/lower parking lot. There’s quiet a story behind him, but I better not put it on here.

If he was killed by the tennis courts then he was definitely not leading from the front as that is not even close to the action. I will say he succumb to his wounds as he was being medically evacuated from the battle.

 

[LHSfaninVA]

The common grave on the hill behind the press box is only maybe 100 feet or so from the West Wing of the old building. You might remember, must’ve been sometime in the 1980s probably the early 1980s there was construction and grading going on in that area.

The principal went out and told the foreman he had heard since he was a child that there was a common grave in that area causing the construction to be halted until they could get people here to investigate.

Seems like some engineers came here from Asheville along with some professors, anthropologist, I suppose. They took soil samples and dug down in it. Heard they didn’t go very far until they began noticing a pattern of large stones. These guys said the stones had been placed there to keep animals from digging into the ground and carrying the bodies away which was typical back then for that kind of grave.

Also was a large elm tree beside of it which they said was probably put there for shade. Heard there were samples of this tree to determine if the age of it coincided with the time-frame. The tree was knocked down during a storm not so many years ago. Remember something maybe in the paper about very high acidity levels in the soil.
‘Don’t remember anything being said about how far they went into the grave. It’s a little dim, but I’m thinking like the newspaper reported approximately 70 bodies could have been in that one spot.
After that, the grave was marked.

I read that as 70 bodies that could have contributed generational athletic talent for the local county since Gaston, Catawba, and western Cleveland were all part of Lincoln County until the early 1840s.

 

[LHSfaninVA]

You're obviously a local history buff... A professor at Pfeiffer University, who is originally from Lincolnton did a book a couple of years ago about her efforts to prove that Lorenzo Ferrer is the Pirate Jean Lafitte.

Lincolnton was a refugee center at the end of the civil war. We have an odd history. Heard that's why Catawba County isn't part of us, anymore.

I believe or was told that they complained that it was too far to travel to conduct county business.

 

[AlwaysAWolf]

I always thought it was interesting that there was one grave right in the middle of the elementary school playground.

We just played all around them, as if it was normal, lol.

 

[Burns85Bulldogs]

Now that we've totally hijacked this thread and turned it into a local history discussion....

 

[Lincolnton]

I enjoyed it…Thanks.