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Powell House, also known as The Trading Post and Wooten-Powell House, is a historic home located in Fair Bluff, Columbus County, North Carolina. The original section was built about 1803, and consisted of two equal-sized rooms. Its architectural style is vernacular Federal. It has several mid-to-late 19th century additions, which were made in ...
Conover is a city in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 8,421 as of the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is part of the Hickory – Lenoir – Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area and Charlotte Metropolitan Area .
North Carolina Highway 16 (NC 16) is a 143.8-mile (231.4 km) primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina.Traveling in a north–south direction, it connects the cities and towns of Charlotte, Newton, Conover, Taylorsville, Wilkesboro and Jefferson, linking the Charlotte metropolitan area with the mountainous High Country.
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By the early 19th century, several companies established strings of fur trading posts and forts across North America. As well, the North-West Mounted Police established local headquarters at various points such as Calgary where the HBC soon set up a store.
A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory in European and colonial contexts, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded. Typically a trading post allows people from one geographic area to exchange for goods produced in another area.
George Huffman Farm, also known as the Huffman-Herman Farm and Huffman-Punch-Herman Farm, is a historic farm and national historic district located near Conover, Catawba County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 2 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site.
It is bordered to the north by Conover and to the northwest by Hickory. Claremont is to the northeast, and Maiden is to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 13.8 square miles (35.8 km 2 ), of which 13.8 square miles (35.7 km 2 ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2 ), or 0.37%, is water.