Hey Elizabeth! You got me on that one. Can you say "DUH!" I used to live down that way (Gaston County) and should have remembered that. The gray matter is slowly receding. ;-) Bob Carter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Harris" <ncgen@mindspring.com> To: <NCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [NCROOTS] City Locations > >Some state web pages have city locators: type in a city name and the web > >site tells you what county it is in. I cannot find such a locator on the > >N.C. site so can someone tell me what county(s) the following towns are in? > >Rowen in 1786; Davidson in 1791. > > > > There is a town named Davidson in Mecklenburg County. > > There is also a county named Davidson, but it didn't exist yet in > 1791. It was formed from Rowan (note spelling) County in 1822. > > I don't know of a town named Rowen. > > > There is a country-wide town/county lookup page on rootsweb, at > > http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi > > > -- > Elizabeth Harris > ncgen@mindspring.com > > NCGenWeb project: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/ > Winston-Salem NC area genealogy: http://www.fmoran.com/ > > > ==== NCROOTS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > NCROOTS-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > (or NCROOTS-D-REQUEST@rootsweb.com for digest mode" > Put the one word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > It helps to leave the subject line blank, or put UNSUBSCRIBE there also. >