McDowell County is celebrating the country’s 250 years with a speaker series. The next history speaker will present “How the Scots-Irish Helped Win American Independence.”

The second event in the McDowell County America 250 Speaker Series will take place on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 7 p.m. at the historic Marion Depot at 48 Depot St.

September is Overmountain Campaign month when Overmountain Victory Trail Association reenactors retrace the march from Sycamore Shoals, Tennessee, through McDowell County and on to King’s Mountain, according to a news release from McDowell County’s America 250 organizers. The September speaker, Dr. John Lafferty, will talk about the Scots-Irish’s contribution to the Revolutionary War cause generally, and specially about their key role in the defeat of Loyalist f

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