Gazetteer

rises in SW Transylvania County and flows N for a short distance then SE and SW into South Carolina, where it joins Whitewater River in forming Keowee River. The name is derived from the Cherokee word Tor-tzoo-whah (redbird).

See Baltimore.

rises in N Jones County and flows S into Beaver Creek.

extends SE from Beaverdam Gap in NW Henderson County to the junction of Wash Creek and North Fork Mills River.

rises in N Jones County and flows N along the Craven-Lenoir county line into Neuse River. See also Gum Swamp.

community in N Watauga County on North Fork New River.

community in E Henderson County.

former ford across the Yadkin River, Rowan and Davidson Counties. The E end of Big Island was one terminus of the ford. In 1701 John Lawson visited the site, which was on a trading path maintained by Indians across central North Carolina. Gen. Nathanael Greene's American army made a crossing there, February 1, 1781, when almost caught by Cornwallis. High water prevented the British from overtaking the exhausted Americans. A Confederate fort and earth-works nearby protected the railroad and a toll bridge during the Civil War.

a colonial trading route dating from the seventeenth century from Petersburg, Va., to the Catawba and Waxhaw Indians. One branch entered North Carolina in Granville County and another in Warren County. They converged near the present site of Oxford and followed a SW route through Granville, Durham, Orange, Alamance, Guilford, Randolph, Davidson, Rowan, and Cabarrus Counties. At about the present site of Concord, the road split, with a W branch leading through present Charlotte to the Catawba Indians. The E branch led almost directly S through Union County to the Waxhaw Indians. The Trading Path appears on the Collet map, 1770, and the Mouzon map, 1775.

See Cape Fear.