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China Grove is a town in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,434 at the 2020 census. The town is located just north of Landis and south of Salisbury. It was one of the first towns in the United States to have Rural Free Mail Delivery. The town was named for a grove of chinaberry trees planted near the depot. [4]
Location of China Grove Township in Rowan County, N.C. China Grove Township is one of fourteen townships in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States. The township had a population of 23,348 according to the 2000 census. Geographically, China Grove Township occupies 38.64 square miles (100.1 km 2) in southern Rowan County.
China Grove was auctioned off in 1869 for only $50 (~$1,145 in 2023). The winning bidder, Amos Wade, was the first of fifteen successive owners of the property until 1934. That year, owner Gurney P. Hood, the North Carolina Commissioner of Banks, sold China Grove to J. W. Cowell.
"China Grove" is a song by American rock band the Doobie Brothers, released in 1973 on their third studio album, The Captain and Me. It was written and sung by the band's original lead singer and songwriter Tom Johnston. [4] The song reached number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
China Grove: China Grove: February 6, 1973 : 3 miles SW of Oriental on SR 1302: Oriental: China Grove is a historic plantation house located near Oriental, North Carolina, built sometime in the late-18th century to early-19th century.
The exact location of the North Carolina marsh isn’t given in the popular book (now a movie), ... Other NC places in ‘Crawdads’: Chapel Hill, Asheville, Greenville.
It then briefly overlaps with US 601 and NC 73 in western Concord before US 601 splits to run concurrently with I-85 and NC 73 splitting to head toward downtown Concord. From here, US 29 runs north through Kannapolis. US 29 then goes through Landis and China Grove, briefly overlapping with NC 152 east of China Grove.
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