[4][2] Rendezvous Mountain is popularly rumored to have been an assembly point for the Overmountain Men during the Revolutionary War.

[5][4] Colonel Benjamin Cleveland is said to have called militiamen from around Wilkes County, by blowing a large ox horn from the mountain's summit.

[5][6][4] Cleveland was able to summon over 200 Patriots from the surrounding area to join him on a march to the Battle of Kings Mountain.

In 1926, the park's original 146-acre (0.59 km2) tract was donated to the state by Judge T. B. Finley of North Wilkesboro for inclusion in the State Park System; however, the unit was never opened to the public due to its small size, inaccessible location, and questionable historic significance.

[2] Meanwhile, the undeveloped, 1,500-acre (6.1 km2)[2] Little Fork tract would be retained by the Forest Service, and it would be leased to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission as a public game land.