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Search in county for fords, trading paths proceeding |
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Wednesday, 25 January 2006 |
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Davidson County Commissioner Max Walser (left) and Tom Magnuson sit and
talk on a berm from the Hillsborough trading path after hiking to the
edge of the Abbotts Creek section of High Rock Lake Tuesday afternoon.
(Donnie Roberts/The Dispatch)
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By WILLIAM KEESLER
The Dispatch
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Max Walser calls this place in the woods "the cloverleaf."
The Trading Path, a route used by Native Americans thousands of years ago,
comes from the Trading Ford at the Yadkin River about eight miles to the west.
At this point on hardwood company land in Cotton Grove, the path splits in two.
One part changes into a road that European settlers of North
Carolina utilized to go east toward Fayetteville
and Wilmington
in the early 1700s. The other part changes into a road that they utilized to go
north toward Hillsborough and Petersburg, Va. Less than a quarter-mile away,
the two roads, which are mostly leaf-covered indentations in the ground now,
lead to fords across Abbotts Creek. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 April 2006 )
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