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The Wilson Creek Wilderness area was once used by the Cherokee Native Americans as a summer hunting ground. [4] The area was settled in 1750, and logging began in the forest. Mortimer, once the largest community in the Wilson Creek area, was the site of the Ritter Lumber Company sawmill. This sawmill was destroyed by a storm that produced over ...
Roughly bounded by NC 1003, NC 1411, NC 1414, and Town Creek 35°47′57″N 77°45′25″W / 35.799167°N 77.756944°W / 35.799167; -77.756944 ( Upper Town Creek Rural Historic Wilson
North Carolina plantation were identified by name, beginning in the 17th century. The names of families or nearby rivers or other features were used. The names assisted the owners and local record keepers in keeping track of specific parcels of land. In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records.
Wilson Creek drains 5.83 square miles (15.1 km 2) of area, receives about 54.5 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 578.57, and is about 9% forested. [ 5 ] See also
Upper Town Creek Rural Historic District is a national historic district located near Wilson, in Edgecombe and Wilson County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 117 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures on four contiguous farms near Wilson.
Mortimer, North Carolina is a ghost town in Wilson Creek Township, Caldwell County, in the northwestern part of the state. Once a mill town with a population of around 800, the town flooded in 1940 and was subsequently abandoned. Several remains are existent today, including machinery from the mill and the foundations of several buildings. [1]
Asheville. The mountainous western North Carolina city of Asheville is mentioned several times throughout the book. Kya’s dad, Pa, is from Asheville. His family owned a plantation there, but ...
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Burke 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.