Quaker Meadows

… a grassy region in W central Burke County 1 mi. NW of Morganton, lying between Canoe and Upper Creeks. Settled as early as 1752; appears on the Collet map, 1770. A frontier rendezvous, it was the home of Joseph and Charles McDowell, officers at the Battle of Kings Mountain (1780) and later public leaders. Zebulon B. Vance and his first wife, Harriet Espy, were married there.