Waxhaws
The area referred to as the "Waxhaws" is located in the Piedmont region of North and South Carolina lying southwest of the Uwharrie Mountains.
[3] Around the year 1740, Irish, Scots-Irish, and German colonists began to move into The Waxhaws region and to establish farms.
[3] During the American Revolutionary War, under the command of Colonel William Davie, Patriot militiamen were active in The Waxhaws.
[3] The eleventh president of the United States, James K. Polk, who took office on March 4, 1845, also was born in The Waxhaws region.
During the American Civil War, in 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's army came through parts of the region.
A youthful colonist at age thirteen, Andrew Jackson enlisted in the cause of his emerging country and was taken prisoner by the British. Being ordered by an officer to clean his boots, he indignantly refused and reportedly received a sword cut for his temerity that left the lifelong scars on his hand and face. He would go on to become the seventh president of the new United States of America. ( Currier and Ives print, 1876)