Wandering through the NC Piedmont

NOTE: I am indebted to David Southern for alerting me to many of the sources cited herein. The well established Native American path across...

The following is more or less the presentation I made as part of the UNC Geography Department's Spring Colloquium series (Jan 24, 2010): I ...

A year or so ago, Stewart Dunaway mentioned Gen. John Butler’s plantation 'Mount Pleasant" on the Haw River just south of William Galbreath....

Pretty much this entire blogpost is extracted from John Scott Davenport's excellent article Early Settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont on...

NOW AVAILABLE! I have wrapped up my work on mapping the early land claims that lie within the USGS 7.5' Saxapahaw Quadrangle. The resulti...