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In 1747, Adam and his family moved from Virginia and became the first Europeans to permanently settle on the west side of the Catawba River in North Carolina. Adam spent two days scouting the river when he crossed it at a shallow area thereafter called Sherrill's Ford (located just north of modern-day Charlotte). Adam's later received a land ...
Rowan County (/ r oʊ ˈ æ n / roh-AN) [1] [2] is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina that was formed in 1753, as part of the British Province of North Carolina.It was originally a vast territory with unlimited western boundaries, but its size was reduced to 524 square miles (1,360 km 2) after several counties were formed from Rowan County in the 18th and 19th centuries.
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rowan County, North Carolina.Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Chief Seattle was the first Native American leader to sign the Point Elliot Treaty, which was an agreement between the U.S. government and the Native Americans to give the U.S. government land ...
Map of Rowan County, North Carolina in 1903. Items portrayed in this file depicts. Scotch Irish Township. Rowan County. Rowan County. inception. 1 January 1903 Gregorian.
Thomas Gillespie (c. 1719 – December 13, 1786) was a large plantation owner in mid-to-late 18th-century North Carolina and served as commissary of the Rowan County Regiment in the North Carolina militia during the American Revolution.
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A map showing the proposed route of the de Soto Expedition, based on the 1997 Charles Hudson map. Hernando de Soto first explored west-central North Carolina during his 1539–1540 expedition. His first encounter with a native settlement in North Carolina may have been at Guaquilli, near modern Hickory.