Settling the
Western Frontier
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Settling the Western Frontier
Today the area between Charlotte and Asheville North Carolina is a bustling small industrial cities amid small farming communities. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains, the land is rolling piedmont.
In 1750 it was the western frontier of America. Amid the forest and rivers, wild animals and Indians (Cherokee and Catawba) populated the land. When the Germans and Scotch-Irish came into the area, they definitely were faced with settling the western frontier.
It is neither within my means nor desires to write a comprehensive history of present day Rutherford, Cleveland and Lincoln in the eighteenth century. My intent is to provide people interested in this area of local history with vignettes of history. Vignettes which reveal something of the lives of the people living in that place and that time.
Most of the information in this journey relates to people included in "Some Families of Old Tryon". Where possible, I've attempted to cross-link with that journal.
The Native LandsThe ecology of the Lincoln County, NC area in the 18th century.
Information and stories of the white man meeting the Indians west of the Catawba River.
Map and basic information about the route used by many migrants into the southern states in the eighteenth century.
Map and summary information on the migration patterns into and out of the old Tryon County area.
Excerpts from Alfred Nixon's "History of Lincoln County", cross-linked to individuals in "Some Families of Old Tryon"
Article from the Charlotte Observer in 1951 on the German catechism books used by German speaking settlers in North Carolina.
The history of a log house probably built by Alexander McEntire and in the Whisnant family for 170 years