McDowell County, NC Real Estate Market

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Native American tribes settled in this region over 6,000 years ago and in the early 1700s, Ulster Scots and German settlers were drawn to McDowell County by the fertile Catawba River basin. McDowell County was the western outpost of civilization in America until the Revolutionary War.

The 220-mile-long Catawba River, named after the Native American tribes that first settled on the banks, is a tributary of the Wateree River in the states of North Carolina and South Carolina. The Catawba River divides the county flowing east to west with beginnings just outside Old Fort at Catawba Falls.

McDowell county lands include the Pisgah National Forest, which covers 67,000 acres, the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which forms 30 miles of the county's northern border, Catawba Falls and the Linville Gorge Wilderness Area.

The vast 446 square mile countryside of McDowell County includes Marion, Old Fort, Little Switzerland, Linville Falls, and Lake James. The population of McDowell County was 44,961 in 2013. Elevations here top out at 4,000 feet above sea level opening up to views of the green valley floors below.

McDowell County: McDowellgov.com

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