Entries Containing All of the Phrases «cabarrus county» AND «north carolina»

By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), June 19, 2021

Concord, NC Marker

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1 ► North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Concord — Concord, NC — "Harmony and Friendship" — Reported permanently removed

Catawba Indians originally inhabited present day Cabarrus County when significant numbers of Dutch, Scots-Irish, German, and Welsh-English families began traveling the Great Wagon Road to North Carolina backcountry in the middle of the eighteenth . . . — — Map (db m258305) HM

2 ► North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Mount Pleasant — L-66 — Mont Amoena Seminary —

Lutheran school for girls, 1859-1927. The name is Latin for “Mt. Pleasant.” Site is one block south. — — Map (db m238042) HM

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3 ► North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, Charlotte center city — Gold Mining —

The first documented discovery of gold in the United States was in 1799 in Cabarrus County (formerly Mecklenburg) by twelve-year-old Conrad Reed. Reed Gold Mine is now a state historic site. Gold was discovered in Mecklenburg in 1802 near . . . — — Map (db m175552) HM

4 ► North Carolina, Polk County, Columbus — Polk County Courthouse — Raiders in the County — Stoneman's Raid —

(Preface): On March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Tennessee into southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina to disrupt the Confederate supply line by destroying sections of the Virginia and Tennessee . . . — — Map (db m53199) HM

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5 ► North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Concord — St. John's Lutheran Church — Community Sacrifice —

During the Civil War, about two hundred members of St. John’s Lutheran Church served in at least eight Confederate army units. The units included companies in the 8th, 20th, 33rd, 52nd, and 57th North Carolina Infantry regiments, as well as a . . . — — Map (db m77374) HM

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6 ► North Carolina, Rowan County, Rockwell — Arends / Nussman —

Arends Johann Gottfried Arends December 11, 1740-July 9, 1807 He came here as a teacher in 1773, German church leaders complied with the request from sixty Rowan families carried by Christopher Lyerly and Christopher Rendleman, . . . — — Map (db m181950) HM

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7 ► North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Mount Pleasant — Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity — Mount Pleasant, North Carolina —

Organized November 1869 in the chapel of North Carolina College (1859-1901) (First place of worship circa 1867-72) Edifice erected 1872directly west across South Main Street and facing Mont Amoena Female Seminary (1859-1927). . . . — — Map (db m245987) HM

8 ► South Carolina, York County, McConnells — The Homestead — Reported missing

The Homestead was built between 1823 and 1826 for Dr. John Simpson Bratton and his wife Harriet Rainey Bratton, the second generation of the Bratton family to live at Brattonsville. Bricks for the chimneys were made on the plantation. The two . . . — — Map (db m272030) HM

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