Farm Comments in Charlotte Observer, Sept. 6, 1948
When Lincoln County was carved out of the famous old Tryon
County in 1779 and named for General Benjamin Lincoln, the county was one of
the largest in North Carolina. But it was a good county with a fertile soil,
heavy hardwood forests, and well drained. Its territory was so desirable
therefore, that the original boundaries were whittled down again and again but
new counties being formed the parts of the mother county. Now Lincoln is one of
the smallest counties in the state with an area of only 179,225 acres of land.
The soil is productive and the county is regarded as one of the greatest
agricultural regions in North Carolina.
Lincoln has the reputation of producing the finest quality
of wheat of any section of the state. It is said that Cornwallis stopped at
Ramseur’s Mill in the attempt to get some of the good flour made from the wheat
of that section for his Army.
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