western NC the Beginning

[DaveSmith]

Found this very interesting video about the people of North Carolina in the early days. Watch it and you will see why I highlighted "people"

 

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[MrMarsHill]

Madison County here. I spend lots of time in the Frenchbroad River in Buncombe County as well. These mountains are our safe haven! Home...
Learned some very interesting info here too! I metal detect along an old road just like those in the vid. Id love to find some of that Spanish silver though huh! Well worth the watch, and I thought I had seen all the internet had on the area. Thanks for posting!

 

[Buckshotnc]

Dave, excellent video thanks for posting and sharing. Love history, for 30 years my business partner and I owned the McDowell House and I'm told it is the only standing house in the North Carolina for which a county was named. It was the home of Joseph McDowell who fought at Kings Mountain in the Revolutionary War we sold the house to the city and county and it is now a designated part of the Over The Mountain Men. It has been said that the line in Western North Carolina and Tennessee was decided at a meeting there. The house was built in the late 1700's.

 

[MrMarsHill]

Super interesting @Buckshotnc ! I'd love to hear what you found when you owned the property... given that you hunted it that is. I bet you found cool stuff even just looking with no MD or tools etc. My goal is to someday own a historic home. I am a go getter, so I believe one day I will. Not in the near future though it doesn't look like, unless I find a winning lotto ticket etc, maybe a way to turbo boost my profits here during the Covid Crisis! Wishful thinking. Id really love to hear anything interesting you have to say about owning that old house... treasure related or not. I'm just into the history, architecture... all of it! Not to hijack the thread of course haha!

 

[Buckshotnc]

Believe it or not really didn't search the property, didn't get a metal detector until close to the time we sold the property however we had to replace a portion of the flooring to put in dressing rooms and bathrooms for our clothing stores and did find some old bottles & glassware. Now wish I had searched more. Some of the history indicates Davy Crockett spent time there with the Carson's & McDowell's and they raced horses between the McDowell House and the Carson House.

 

[DaveSmith]

Thanks Buck and Mars. Was hoping someone saw the video lol. I had never saw it until a while back.
Buck, I am a member of the SAR, Sons of the American Revolution, and love the revolutionary history and heritage we have here.
Speaking of old houses, I met a couple that had bought some property in McDowell county that had an old, really old, house on it. While tearing it down they found (they showed them to me) what was a pair of child's shoes. They were behind a wall, one on either side of the entry door of the house. They had no idea why the were there. Either they were put there while building it or the wall opened and put in then closed back up. I have never heard of that being done. Don't know if it is an old superstition or what.

 

[ky keith]

We have a home in Burnsville, would love to connect with someone in the spring to hunt

 

[Buckshotnc]

We have a home in Burnsville, would love to connect with someone in the spring to hunt

. Wintering at SC beach but will be back in area in April. Maybe we could get together then. Will send you a pm with contact info.

 

[ky keith]

. Wintering at SC beach but will be back in area in April. Maybe we could get together then. Will send you a pm with contact info.

That sounds great! We have a house in Fort Myers where we are now, but will also head up there in April

 

[rtp_guy]

We have a home in Burnsville, would love to connect with someone in the spring to hunt

Buckshotnc! I hope you're having a warm winter down in NC. I'll be back your way (NC area) in April and would love to catch up out there.

 

[Buckshotnc]

Buckshotnc! I hope you're having a warm winter down in NC. I'll be back your way (NC area) in April and would love to catch up out there.

Great, hit me up maybe we can get together.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Thank you for this great video!

I'm in SW Virginia just North of Mt. Airy, NC

My ancestors were original settlers of this property - best I can tell from genealogy, that would have been early 1700's.

 

[Buckshotnc]

Thank you for this great video!

I'm in SW Virginia just North of Mt. Airy, NC

My ancestors were original settlers of this property - best I can tell from genealogy, that would have been early 1700's.

Are you talking about the McDowell’s ?

 

[Ryano]

I live in Charlotte NC, formerly of East TN and drive through Asheville area often on my visits back to Maryville (Blount County).. sometimes I?ll take the longer route - Cherohela Skyway to Foothills Parkway - and explore the mountain villages along the way. Its humbling to think of the hardships our ancestors faced as they toiled to build homesteads and communities into the towns we have today.

The Appalachian forest bordering TN, GA, VA, and the Carolinas is huge. There?s still large areas that haven?t seen incursions by modern man apart from the occasional TVA or Duke Power worker.. wonder what secrets those lands hold ?

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Are you talking about the McDowell’s ?

No, my ancestors were Robertson's.

 

[DaveSmith]

Been awhile since looked at this thread. Good to see some activity. let me know if yall meet up and if you don't mind i will too and glad to see the video was looked at. I just happened across it one day while looking stuff up.