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- About the Archaeology Primer
- In Excavating Occaneechi Town: An archaeology primer, page 1
- The Occaneechi Indians were once prominent in the Virginia and Carolina Piedmont. As their numbers were reduced by clashes with European colonists, they retreated to a village on the Eno River. Their numbers further dwindled due to disease and warfare, and by 1730 the Occaneechi were all but gone. In 1983, archaeologists discovered a village site near Hillsborough, North Carolina. Through a series of digs, they confirmed that they had found Occaneechi Town.
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- Bedding planes
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 8
- The quartzite layers that make up the pinnacle of Pilot Mountain also comprise the erosion-resistant cap rocks of Hanging Rock and the two ridges that separate these pinnacles. This uniformity suggests a common origin of this material, and geologists theorize...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Composition of Pilot Mountain
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 6
- When viewed up close, the pinnacle of Pilot Mountain is seen to be made of almost horizontal layers of rock. This rock is quartzite, and the horizontal lines between the layers are bedding planes that mark the tops of the individual quartzite beds....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Expanding to the west: Settlement of the Piedmont region, 1730 to 1775
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 5.1
- The population of North Carolina's Piedmont region more than doubled in the decade from 1765 to 1775. Most of the settlers who arrived during that time were European Americans traveling from the North via the Great Indian Trading Path and the Great Wagon Road.
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- By Christopher E. Hendricks and J. Edwin Hendricks.
- From stringbands to bluesmen: African American music in the Piedmont
- This article from Carolina Music Ways discusses the transition in African American music from stringband to blues in the North Carolina Piedmont between 1860 and 1940, with a focus on Preston Fulp, a blues musician who gained prominence in Winston-Salem in the 1930s.
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- Governing the Piedmont
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 5.7
- As settlers spread across the North Carolina Piedmont in the eighteenth century, the provincial government didn't keep up with them. Westerners weren't fairly represented in the provincial Assembly, and the so-called "Granville District," owned by the one remaining Lord Proprietor, was badly mismanaged.
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- By David Walbert.
- Life on the land: The Piedmont before industrialization
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.1
- In the decades after the Civil War, commercial agriculture and industry made their way into the North Carolina Piedmont, requiring subsistence farmers to adapt their farms and their ways of life to new economic realities.
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- By James Leloudis and Kathryn Walbert.
- The lost landscape of the Piedmont
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.5
- The Piedmont region of North Carolina is unrecognizable compared to the landscape of 400 years ago. Where man-made lakes now sit were huge bottomland forests. While pine trees accounted for only a small percentage of Piedmont acreage, they now dominate the region's forests -- a result of clearing hardwoods to create farmland. Other once-prominent landscapes include areas of grassland known as “Piedmont prairie,” and upland depression swamps where the clay soils often kept moisture on the land’s surface.
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- Mapping the Great Wagon Road
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 5.2
- The Great Wagon Road took eighteenth-century colonists from Philadelphia west into the Appalachian mountains and south into the North Carolina Piedmont. This article describes the route and its history and offers two detailed maps, one from 1751 and one from the present, for comparison.
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- By David Walbert.
- More folding
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 10
- Close examination of the rock surfaces above Gorges Creek shows small-scale folds of exactly the type you would expect to find where flexible layers of rock were being dragged over one another during development of a large scale fold in the overlying layers,...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Natural diversity
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 1.1
- North Carolina has within its borders the highest mountains east of the Mississippi River, a broad, low-lying coastal area, and all the land in between. That variety of landforms, elevations, and climates has produced as diverse a range of ecosystems as any state in the United States. It has also influenced the way people have lived in North Carolina for thousands of years.
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- By David Walbert.
- North Carolina's lonely mountains
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 1
- One of the most striking sights on North Carolina's inner Piedmont is the solitary peaks or ridges that loom above the plateau's average elevation. Some of these are among the state's most visited parks: Hanging Rock, Pilot Mountain, Crowders Mountain, Stone...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Peoples of the Piedmont
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.4
- In the years between 1000 and 1200 CE, Native life in the north and central Piedmont hadn’t changed much from prior Woodland times. People still lived in small hamlets whose houses strung out along river and stream banks. At times, the hamlets sat empty when people left to hunt and gather wild foods. But times were about to change. Around 900 CE, corn agriculture began. As a result, population began to grow, people began gathering in larger villages, and conflicts erupted.
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- Piedmont cultures graphic organizer
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.3
- This activity will assist students in understanding Piedmont cultures as they read the article "Peoples of the Piedmont."
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The Piedmont's first human inhabitants
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 4
- The first human inhabitants of the Piedmont to make use of its clays were the American Indians. People who lived along the banks of the Potomac and Savannah Rivers discovered the seemingly miraculous transformation of mud into stone by heat about 4500 years...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Pilot Mountain
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 5
- Pilot Mountain has a striking profile long used as a landmark by both native Americans and early colonists. Rising more than 1,400 feet above the upper Piedmont plateau, it is easily seen from a distance.
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- The pottery makers
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.4
- Archaeologists do a bit of shrugging when asked about the Woodland—that time and lifeway tucked between 1000 BC and AD 1000. Some things they readily understand, but others leave them wondering.
- The regions of North Carolina
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.2
- In this lesson, students analyze the differences between North Carolina's geographical regions: the Mountains, the Piedmont, and the Inner and Outer Coastal Plain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Sauratown Mountains
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 4
- One of the best places to see real monadnocks in North Carolina's Piedmont is in the Sauratown Mountains north of Winston-Salem in Stokes and Surrey counties. Here are pinnacles and two high ridges that stretch west southwest from Hanging Rock and include...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Why does the Piedmont have so much clay and how is it used?
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 2
- North Carolina's Piedmont has so much clay because clay is, quite literally, “common as dirt.” Seventy-five percent of the earth's surface is composed of silica (SiO2) and aluminia (Al2O3), the primary ingredients...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
