 In September 1780, the Overmountain Men— the frontier militia that helped defeat an army of British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain— mustered at Sycamore Shoals on the grounds around Fort Watauga.After this event, the fort largely vanished from historical records, but it still occasionally appeared in land deeds as late as 1819.In 1909, the Daughters of the American Revolution placed a monument near the site of the fort.