Polk County
8 places on the trail: 8 highway markers.
People of Polk County in Carolina Quotes
Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774
- O-30NORTH CAROLINA-SOUTH CAROLINANORTH CAROLINA / Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote re...
- O-38THE BLOCK HOUSEEarly landmark, western terminus of the 1772 boundary survey between N.C. and S.C. Stood 1/2 mile east.
- O-77TRYON MOUNTAINLandmark on Cherokee boundary, negotiated by Gov. William Tryon and Cherokee chiefs, 1767. Elevation 3,231 feet.