A History of Rowan County, North Carolina.
Containing Sketches of Prominent Families and Distinguished Men, With an Appendix.
Originally published in 1881
Contents:
Rowan County. General description.
The Aborigines.
The first European settlers.
Organization, boundary, &c.
The First Court
The Court House built.
Early settlers in Salisbury.
Charter regulations.
Religion and churches, with a resume of the parish laws.
The Indian wars, schools--Social life.
"The Regulation"
Causes of the Revolution.
Members of the Provincial Congress.
Moses Winslow and Alexander Osborne
Rowan County Committee of Safety.
Military affairs.
Gen. Green and Lord Cornwalis in Rowan County.
General Greene in Salisbury.
Revolutionary incidents.
The first years of peace.
Gen. Washington's visit to Salisbury.
Families living on the Yadkin River one hundred years ago.
Distinguished men in Rowan.
Old families of Rowan.
The War of 1812--'14.
African slavery.
Folk-lore.
The churches of Rowan.
Lutheranism in Rowan.
The introduction and growth of Methodism in Rowan County
Episcopacy in Rowan County
German Reformed Church
The Baptist churches of Rowan
Index
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