2017 Swinging Swallows Modern Square Dance Club. There is ample parking in the rear of the Church. In April of 1753 a petition bearing 348 names from the inhabitants of the western section of the Colony of North Carolina requested that a new county be formed. The Western North Carolina, constructed in 1858, and the Atlantic, Tennessee, and Ohio Railroad all crossed through Iredell in the late nineteenth century. ?>, Sign up for updates from the North Carolina History Project. Is Rachel Ann Spear really the daughter of James Spear? Managing editor:Alfred W. Stuart. Many early North Carolina families are named on the Moseley Map (1733). The widow BRANDONs first name is another matter, a solution which may never be found. They were primarily of Scotch-Irish or German extraction. He had a grist mill and sold lumber. Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2005; Revised October, 2022. Your email address will not be published.