Record #:

13854

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill

Abstract:

Home of the Old Catawba and Cherokee Trading Fort on the Yadkin River, Rowan County was settled by Scotch-Irish and German immigrants in the 1740s. Rowan is famous for being the birthplace or home of Griffith Rutherford, Andrew Jackson, General William Davidson, John Brevard, William R. Davie, Daniel Boone, and Alexander Martin.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 20 Issue 45, Apr 1953, p1-3, 16-19, il

Subject(s):

Rowan County--History