Colonial British

English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish colonial ancestry in America — records, migration, and family stories from the British colonial era.

You Can't Miss It! How Our Ancestors Found Their Way Home
Colonial British

You Can't Miss It! How Our Ancestors Found Their Way Home

Traveling down Interstate 74 heading south, you can't help but notice this big "knob" of a mountain sticking up out of the green forest of trees and shrubs. It is Pilot Mountain in North Carolina — along with the nearby town of Pilot Mountain and Andy Griffith's own hometown of Mount Airy — that inspired his fictional towns of Mayberry and Mount Pilot. Pilot Mountain is one of North Carolina's most striking natural landmarks — a lone quartzite peak jutting 2,421 feet above sea level, all that re