At 09:33 AM 11/17/99 -0500, J D Lail wrote: >Has anyone run into any information as to why a German family from >Rowan would have a reason to travel to the Spartanburg SC area >(the old 96 district) in the latter 1700's ? Was there a German >church there ? A market place ? Some other attraction ? > >Thanks >Don Lail There were lots of other Germans in the area. It was also a newer area for settlement: from reading Carolina Cradle, Rowan County must have been pretty crowded for some people well before 1800. Elizabeth Whitaker ELWHITAKER@ftc-i.net