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From: Wilson Roberts <>
Subject: Re: [NCROOTS] Old Fort, NC
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 21:59:25 -0700

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 20:17:11 EDT, you wrote:

>Has anyone ever heard of Old Fort, NC? If anyone has, could you please tell
>me where it is, and what county it is in.
>
>Thanks ever so much.
>
>Wanda - NJ


Hi Wanda;
A little more information about Old Fort.
>From the "North Carolina Gazetteer" by William S. Powell, ISBN:
0-8078-1247-1, pub by North Carolina Press 1968.

Page 362 -- Old Fort, town in w McDowell County on Catawba River. Alt
1,438. Inc 1872 as Catawba Vale by a northern land company which
expected to develop a city on the Davidson Plantation which it had
changed in 1873 to Old Fort, the name by which the community had been
known since 1828 or earlier when a post office existed there. Named
for Davidson's Fort erected in 1776 by troops under the command of
Griffin Rutherford to protect settlers from Cherokee Indians.

Page 362 -- Old Fort Township, sw Mcdowell County.

Probably more than you wanted.
Will in Phoenix

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