TRADING-FORD

The Trading Ford area's rich history had been ignored by both historians and development for decades. Thus began a fourteen-year (at this time) quest for the information which would restore this history to its rightful place. Unfortunately, development (I-85 expansion, Duke Energy's building of a second power plant near the Trading Ford, and activity by a racetrack developer) have destroyed some of the historic sites which I was privileged to visit and document. It is critical that we preserve what is left. The Trading Ford Historic District Preservation Association was founded in 2003 to undertake this task, and to responsibly make these historic sites available to the public... The historic Trading Ford area of the Yadkin River is a virtual microcosm of American history, spanning 10,000 years of Native-American habitation, early settlement roads, fords and ferries, 19th and 20th century bridges, Revolutionary and Civil war battle sites.

Primary location: Salisbury United States