Waxhaws

The Waxhaws is a geographical area on the border of North and South Carolina.

The Waxhaws region is in the Piedmont region of North and South Carolina, southwest of the Uwharrie Mountains. The region encompasses an area just south of Charlotte, North Carolina, to Lancaster, South Carolina; and from Monroe, North Carolina in the east to the Catawba River in the west. The region is generally forested and hilly, but not mountainous. One town in the region has taken on the name, but it is only one site in the region.

Originally known as "the Waxhaw Settlement", the area was named for its first inhabitants, the Waxhaw Tribe. The Waxhaw were almost annihilated by Eurasian infectious diseases, to which they had no immunity. Secondly, they were destroyed and dispersed by the Yamasee War of 1715, which nearly emptied the region of Native inhabitants.

About 1740, European immigrants, mostly Scots-Irish and German, began to settle the area. What is now called the Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church was built in 1752.

During the American Revolution, settlers in the Waxhaws fiercely resisted the British, notably under the command of Col. William Davie. British commander General Cornwallis briefly occupied the city of Charlotte - which was then and still is the largest city/settlement in the Waxhaws region - but was driven out soon afterward by hostile residents and local settlers from the surrounding areas. Cornwallis later wrote that Charlotte was "a hornet's nest of rebellion," and Charlotte still bears the nickname 'The Hornet's Nest.'

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