North Carolina was a British Colony in the mid 1700’s. After the French and Indian War, in 1763, the British passed the Proclamation stating that the colonists could not move west of the “watershed line” along the highest mountains.They did not have to protect...
Hernando DeSoto and the Spanish in the Toe River Valley DeSoto was the first European to see the Appalachian Mountains.DeSoto and the Spanish were the first Europeans to visit what is now Mitchell County in the 1540’s.There is evidence of Spanish mining at the Sink...
According to Jason Deyton, noted historian and educator, prior to the coming of the white man, the Catawba Indians occupied the territory to the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Cherokee held the area west of the crest of the mountains. Neither tribe lived in...
The Legend of the Esta”Toe” River This legend was printed as told by the students in the Mitchell County Schools in 1938. Some versions of the story depict Estatoe as a Cherokee Indian, others as a Catawba Indian. In the early days before the white came to...
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