The Piedmont’s Next Chapter

The Piedmont’s Next Chapter

This is the last in a series of five blogs that explore the 10,000 year history of human relationship to the land in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.  Other blogs in this series include The Long Story of Catawba Run, Indigenous Cultures of the Piedmont, European...
Industrialization Comes to the Piedmont

Industrialization Comes to the Piedmont

The stately White Oak is one of North Carolina’s most familiar native trees,  grows in a wide variety of habitats and can live as much as 600 years. White oaks support more than 500 different kinds of moths and butterflies (much more than any other native plant)...