Uwharrie

The Uwharrie River flows south through the Carolina Piedmont and the low, wooded mountains that share its name. It joins the Yadkin, whose waters continue toward the Atlantic as the Pee Dee. In February 1701 the English traveller John Lawson crossed the Uwharrie on a journey along the Indigenous trading paths of the interior, before reaching the fortified town of the Keyauwee.