1660-1775 Map showing the different settlement routes in NC. Indian settlements and other settlements are shown.

1775 map showing roads, Indian paths and several townships and other divisions of land.

A New and accurate map of North Carolina and part of South Carolina with the field of battle between Earl Cornwallis and General Gates.

Home built in 1790 by James Irvin father of Rev. A.C. Irvin. who was a Confederate Army chaplain. hand hewn logs daubed with clay, glass was unknown.

A 1798 receipt for taxes paid by Samuel Poston.

A New Map Of Nth. Carolina With Its Canals, Roads & Distances from place to place, along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes. by H.S. Tanner.

Map showing paths of settlement by different groups

A song describing battles from Ramseur's Mill to Yorktown. The song is sung in the style of that era.

Bill of sale

Research outline documenting the Catawba Deerskin Map, drawn around 1721 and presented to South Carolina royal governor Francis Nicholson. The map is one of the rarest surviving examples of Native American cartography from the colonial period.

The Catawba Deerskin Map, drawn around 1721 and presented to South Carolina royal governor Francis Nicholson. This is the British Library copy (Additional MS 4723). The map shows 13 Native American groups as circles connected by paths representing trade routes and political relationships. Charleston is on the left with a ship in harbor, Virginia is on the lower right. The largest circle at center is Nafaw, the principal Catawba town. To view it with standard compass directions, rotate the map so Charleston is at the bottom. A detailed research article identifying all 13 tribes on the map can be found here on this site — search for "Catawba Deerskin Map" or "deerskin."

A 1935 article by local historian P. Cleveland Gardner tracing Cleveland County's origins through eight successive county formations, from the 1663 Carolina charter through the 1841 creation of Cleveland County, including early settlers, Revolutionary War soldiers, and the movements of Cornwallis and Morgan through the region after the Battle of Cowpens.

The Conestoga wagon and the migration of the Scott-Irish and Germans down the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania.

Some early settlements and their history

Picture of General Daniel Morgan the genius of the Battle of Cowpens