If you search for topozone on your internet browser you will gain access to great topographical maps, that you can look at, re-center and print to your hearts delight. I do not know where John Adam's land was, or where Squire Boone's land was, although Squire Boone's name is frequently connected with Salisbury and the area covered by present-day Rowan County. Of course Rowan County was not formed until 1753 ?, and at that time it included virtually all of the northwest quadrant of North Carolina. I do know where the Yadkin River is though. It creates most of the eastern boundry of present-day Rowan County, and the Wachovia tract of the Moravians was on the "three forks of Muddy Branch" (of the Yadkin River). ... the Wachovia tract is near where Winston-Salem is today and most of that tract is in what is now Forsyth County. Davidson County is on the eastern side of the Yadkin River, adjacent to Rowan County. East of Albermarle, North Carolina the Yadkin River is formed out of the Pee Dee River on the border between Stanly and Montgomery Counties, just south of Badin Lake. The Yadkin River then runs up between Rowan and Davidson Counties, northward between Forsyth and Yadkin Counties, then westerly between Yadkin and Surry Counties, then into WIlkes County to the headwaters of the Yadkin near Wilksboro I do not know how substantial a waterway the Yadkin is past Rowan and Davidson Counties, and it is difficult to tell today what it was like 250 years ago beacuse High Rock Lake had been dammed and expanded in Rowan/Davidson Counties. Anyway back to topozone ... if you search for Salisbury, North Carolina you will get an index menu of the USGS topographical maps which show Salisbury ... then once you have pulled up the map you can navigate around as much as you want, even into other quadrants (maps) . You can look at the maps in three differend sizes, depending upon your needs ... it is a great resource. Ginny In a message dated 12/21/2002 10:33:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, aj4ever@olemac.net writes: > Subj: Re: [NCRowan] Ozarks and Piedmont > Date: 12/21/2002 10:33:06 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:aj4ever@olemac.net">aj4ever@olemac.net</A> > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:NCROWAN-L@rootsweb.com">NCROWAN-L@rootsweb.com</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:NCROWAN-L@rootsweb.com">NCROWAN-L@rootsweb.com</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > Hi, Ginny: My goodness, how very interesting. Thanks so much for > explaining all that about North Carolina and its regions, and I thoroughly > enjoyed your "two cents". If you have "four cents", sometime, I would > love to listen. Actually, I am looking for a man's parents. His name > is John Adams, Sr., and he lived in Rowan County, N.C. during abt. 1720 to > 1764, or so, and that county was in such a different area of N.C. than it > is > today. I think he lived on the Yadkin, and maybe not too far from Squire > Boone and his wife (Daniel's parents). I would love to find a map of > North Carolina that showed that part of the Yadkin, or all of it. I can't > find one on the Internet yet. Know where I might find one? I have no > idea exactly where the Yadkin River runs, although I believe John Adams, > Sr. > was suppose to live close to where N.C. borders on Virginia, but I'm not > positive. > Thanks again, Mrs. Sylvia Heiney, aj4ever@olemac.net > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <GinnyAtwell@aol.com> > To: <NCROWAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 12:46 AM > Subject: [NCRowan] Ozarks and Piedmont > > > >The physical geography of North Carolina is thus > > > >the easternmost part of the state is part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, > this > >area is characterized by sandy soil and tidal waters. As a child I also > >learned the term "tidewater" - I am not certain if this is the same as > >coastal plain or if is is an extention of the land around waters of the > >coastal plain until they reach the fall line. > > > >The central part of the state is the Piedmont. It has generally more > fertil > >soil and is easily managed land, this area continues to the foot of the > >mountains mountains. There may also be rolling hills in the piedmont area. > > > >The mountains in North Carolina are the Blue Ridge, Appalacian, and Great > >Smoky Mountains. (pretty much in that order from east to west. > > > >North Carolina is a very wide state, something like 500 miles from the > >easternmost point to the western boundry, but the mountains are far into > the > >western part of the state. > > > >Rowan County is in central North Carolina (although I always think of it > as > >western North Carolina). People in North Carolina consider Western North > >Carolina to be West of the Catawba River and in the Mountains. > > > >When Rowan County was settled in the 1750s. Travel through the mountains > was > >difficult. However there was some travel through the mountains, by > trappers > >and traders, and by people moving down through the valley of Virginia from > >Maryland and Pennsylvania. > > > >There is a definite shadow of these immigration patterns (for example - in > >the number of old Lutheran Churches in the valley of Virginia). The > history > >and record books of the early settlement of the middle colonies records > >little about these settlers, but I think that it was a situation of the > >English keeping the records, and the Germans and Scots-Irish staying > "under > >the radar". > > > >I don't know if this ranting of mine has anything to do with your > question, > >but anyway I had to stick my two cents worth in. > > > >Ginny Atwell > > > > > >From: "Sylvia (Susie) Heiney" <aj4ever@olemac.net> > >To: <NCROWAN-L@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 8:27 AM > >Subject: Re: [NCRowan] Reece &Brandon > > > >Is Rowan County, N.C. in the Ozarks and Piedmont areas? Just what are > >those areas and why are they named so? I have heard of the Piedmont > area, > >but don't understand what it means. > >Mrs. S. Heiney, aj4ever@olemac.net PS, my ancestors name was John > Adams, > > > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >