NC Gazetteer

Coulson Ordinary

Also known as: Colson's Mill
A area in Stanly County
… appears on the Collet map, 1770, on the Pee Dee River in what is now SE Stanly County E of the town of Norwood. At Colson's Mill nearby, Col. William Lee Davidson's Whig militia defeated Col. Samuel Bryan's Tories in July 1780.