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Camp Vance

Camp Vance is a North Carolina historical marker in Burke County, dedicated 1942.

US 64/70 southwest of Drexel

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Training camp for state troops, 1861-64, named for Col. Zebulon Vance, war governor, was here. The camp was raided by federal troops in 1864.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862), 1862, covering the location of Camp Vance, with a pin at the marker's coordinates
Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862), 1862, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.
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This marker is part of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, run by the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources jointly with the N.C. Department of Transportation. Marker texts and locations are the program's own, as the Department publishes them.

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