MAPS

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Current Topographic Map of Etowah area - created with Henderson County's online GO MAPS GIS

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The unincorporated community of Etowah is located along west Highway 64 about halfway between the cities of Hendersonville and Brevard, adjacent to mile #37 of the French Broad River (river headwaters are in the Rosman area of Transylvania County).  "Old Highway 64" was the original road through Etowah prior to the 1950s.

Neighboring communities include,
- In Henderson County:  Big Willow, Pleasant Grove, Crab Creek, Horse Shoe, Holly Springs, and Mills River
- In Transylvania County:  Blantyre, Penrose, Pisgah Forest

county_map_general_area_of_etowah.doc
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The geographic boundaries of traditional pioneer communities are normally based on land features such as the horse shoe bend in the French Broad River, mountain ridges, gaps, creeks, other landmarks, settlement patterns, etc.  

• View an online Topographic Map of Etowah and surrounding area in Henderson County.
  

• A generalized map depicting the traditional communities of Henderson County, from Balfour  to Zirconia,  may be viewed on hendersonheritage.com.
  

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1935 MAP
Horse Shoe Quadrangle 

Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey
Tennessee Valley Authority

Download the PDF file.



source:
geonames.usgs.gov

1935 Map of Horse Shoe Quadrangle, includes Etowah and surrounding areas

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Links to articles & map on NCPedia.org

• Great Wagon Road
  
• Settlement Patterns   
  
• The Great Wagon Road and its offshoots in North Carolina, 1750-1780.  Map by Mark Anderson Moore, courtesy North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh.

The Great Wagon Road is labeled G.W.R. on the map below.

• Originally a Native American hunting, trade, and war trail called the "Warrior's Path"
  
• Sometimes called the "Great Philadelphia Wagon Road"
  
• From the 1750's, carried settlers from northern states into the Piedmont and beyond