Salisbury

North Carolina, United States
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Salisbury, city, seat (1755) of Rowan county, west-central North Carolina, U.S. It is situated near High Rock Lake, roughly midway between Greensboro (northeast) and Charlotte (southwest). Originally home to many Native American peoples, including the Catawba, the area was settled by Scotch-Irish and then Germans in the 1740s. Salisbury was incorporated in 1755, presumably named for the city of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. The pioneer Daniel Boone lived along the banks of the nearby Yadkin River in the 1750s and ’60s, and in 1787 Andrew Jackson was admitted to the bar in Salisbury after studying law with Judge Spruce Macay. ...(100 of 272 words)