Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Rowan County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was created in 1856 and named after John Rowan, who represented Kentucky in the House of Representatives and the Senate. In summer 2015, Rowan County attracted national attention when County Clerk Kim Davis refused, on grounds of religion, to follow a court order requiring her to...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rowan County, North Carolina. Official Website The first Europeans to enter what is now Rowan County were members of the Spanish expedition of Juan Pardo in 1567. They established a fort and a mission in the native village of Guatari, believed to be located near the Yadkin River and inhabited by the Wateree. At the time, the area wa...
Wikipedia =Morehead State University (MSU) is a public, co-educational university located in Morehead, Kentucky, United States, in the foothills of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Rowan County, midway between Lexington, Kentucky, and Huntington, West Virginia. The 2016 edition of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report named MSU one of the top 25 public universities in the Sou...
The Jersey Settlement of Rowan County, North Carolina Originally in Rowan County, North Carolina. Since 1836, in Davidson County, North Carolina. The Coxe Affair that contributed to many of the residents from Hopewell, New Jersey abandoning their lands and homes and eventually migrating to North Carolina. Several of those residents hired an agent to find new land for them. That agent found ...
Wikipedia Salisbury National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Salisbury, in Rowan County, North Carolina. Find a Grave Find a Grave
Wikipedia =Catawba College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. Founded in 1851 by the North Carolina Classis of the Reformed Church in Newton, the college adopted its name from its county of origin, Catawba County, before moving to its current home of Salisbury in 1925.Today, Catawba College still holds loose ties with the successor to the Reforme...