NC Gazetteer

VA Piedmont Dialect Region

A region in Durham County, Granville County, Person County, Orange County, Vance County, Northampton County, Halifax County, Stokes County, Gates County, Hertford County, Surry County, Caswell County, Franklin County, Rockingham County and Warren County
This is the geographic region where the VA Piedmont Dialect is spoken; the boundaries are fuzzy, centered around Lousiburg on the southern border, the state border with Virginia on the northern border, and stretching west and east within a hundred miles of the full width of the northern border of the state.