Bear Poplar, North Carolina
Bear Poplar is a community within Mount Ulla Township in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States.
History
The community was first known as Forty-Four because it was located 44 miles from Charlotte and Winston-Salem.[1] The community got its name around 1773 when Thomas Cowan was walking with his wife about a mile away from his farm when they noticed a bear up a big poplar tree.[2]
At some point Bear Poplar had four stores, two cotton gins, a foundry, a garage, a blue granite quarry, a school, and a post office. The first Post Mistress, Lucy J. Kistler, was appointed in 1878. Bear Poplar Post Office ceased operation in 1966. The community is now served by Mount Ulla Post Office.[1]
An ancestral seat of Cowan and Krider families, Wood Grove, is in Bear Poplar.
References
35°40′34″N 80°41′36″W / 35.67611°N 80.69333°W
- ^ a b Crumbley, Tony L. (Spring 1997). "How Bear Poplar Got Its Name" (PDF). North Carolina Postal Historian. 16: 5–6.
- ^ Brawley, James (1953). The Rowan story, 1753-1953 : a narrative history of Rowan County, North Carolina. Salisbury, N.C.: Rowan Print. Co. pp. 302–303.
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