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The oval-shaped race tracks are believed to have been laid out by 1915 as part of the Pinehurst Race Track established by Leonard Tufts. The Amphidrome is a large agricultural exhibition hall built about 1917. It is a 2 1/2-story, gable-roofed building with stuccoed exterior walls and massive timber roof trusses in the Mission Revival style.
Enochville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,851 at the 2000 census. The population was 2,851 at the 2000 census. History
High Rock Lake is a reservoir located on the Yadkin River in central North Carolina in the counties of Davidson and Rowan.Built in 1926-27 by the Tallassee Power Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), the lake is the northernmost of a series of four hydroelectric projects designed at the time to support the company’s Badin Works, a large aluminum ...
Salisbury High School began in 1904 and was among the earliest public high schools in North Carolina. The current location was completed in 1926 and named Boyden High School in honor of Colonel Archibald Henderson Boyden, an educator who was then Mayor of Salisbury. [4] It is one of many schools built across North Carolina in the early 20th ...
China Grove is a town in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,434 at the 2020 census. ... Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.43%. [3]
Rowan Mills was named for the five story flour mill that Osborn Giles Foard owned in Cleveland. The Rowan Mills Post Office served the area north of the rail line and extended into Scotch Irish Township after the Civil War in 1870. [4] The town and post office kept the name Rowan Mills until 1876 when it was renamed Third Creek Station.
Grace Church began with the influx of German settlers into Piedmont North Carolina mostly from Pennsylvania during the 1740s and 50s. Many of the Germans were of the Lutheran persuasion, but the settlers who began Grace Church were of the Reformed tradition and were called the Calvin or "Presbyterian Congregation on Second Creek in the Dutch Settlement."
Location of Franklin Township in Rowan County, N.C. Franklin Township is one of fourteen townships in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States. The township had a population of 12,301 according to the 2000 census. Geographically, Franklin Township occupies 37.52 square miles (97.2 km 2) in northern Rowan County.