 In 1780, at the height of the American Revolutionary War, the frontier militia known as the Overmountain Men mustered at Sycamore Shoals as it prepared to march across the mountains en route to victory over British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain.The Sycamore Shoals is located at just over upstream from the mouth of the Watauga River, and approximately downstream from the river's confluence with the Doe River and downstream from Wilbur Dam.While managed by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, the shoals are located within the municipal boundaries of Elizabethton.