Trading Ford

On famous trading path

used by Indians and

early settlers. There

Greene, retreating from

Cornwallis, crossed on

Feb. 2, 1781. East 1 mi.

Marker is on North Carolina Route 150, in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Trading Ford

General Nathanael Greene in his masterly retreat from the British army under Lord Cornwallis, crossed the Yadkin at Trading Ford, one-half mile southeast of this spot, February 2-3, 1781. A sudden rise in the river prevented the passage of the ...