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Yadkin Valley is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) expanding across seven counties of northwestern North Carolina encompassing approximately 1,416,600 acres (2,213 sq mi) in the Yadkin River Valley.
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As of October 2024, there are 276 recognized AVAs in 34 states [2] —several of which are shared by two or more states. Over half (154) of the AVAs are in California . American Viticultural Areas range in size from the Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA at 29,900 square miles (77,000 km 2 ) across four states, to the Cole Ranch AVA in ...
In 1985, the NC General Assembly established the Yadkin River State Trail as a paddle trail which follows the river for 163 miles (262 km). [6] The paddle trail is a part of the North Carolina State Trails System, which is a section of the NC Division of Parks and Recreation . [ 7 ]
The South Yadkin River is a 75 mi (121 km) long river that flows through Alexander, Davie, Iredell, Rowan, and Wilkes counties of North Carolina. The mouth is located north of High Rock Lake , where the South Yadkin River meets the Yadkin River .
Present-day Yadkin County was home to the Tutelo and Saponi Indian tribes. [3] European-descent settlers moved into the area around 1748. Though in the western Piedmont region of the state, the residents of the eventual county developed more economic, political, and cultural similarities with their contemporaries in the mountains to the west than to many of their peers in other sections of the ...
They have a 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m 2) winery building and approximately 200-acre (0.81 km 2) acres of vines are planted in the vineyard. Located in the Yadkin Valley AVA , the vineyard shares a similar climate and growing season to several wine growing regions in Europe.
He traveled along the Yadkin River among his various homesteads going through the Blue Ridge Mountains on the Wilderness Road into Tennessee then Kentucky. During the Revolutionary War, soldiers traveled along the Yadkin River (the northern boundary line of the Swan Creek AVA), en route to the pivotal battle at Kings Mountain in South Carolina.