Land Of Eden
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GeoGordie
N 36° 29.510 W 079° 45.751
17S E 610837 N 4039214
Located in Rockingham County .. Eden, NC
An area that would in time be called Leaksville - Draper - Spray, North Carolina. Then take on the name of Eden, North Carolina
Waymark Code: WM9HN
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 03/27/2006
Views: 26
In 1728, English planter and aristocrat Colonel William Byrd and his surveying party entered the Dan Valley. The Crown appointed Byrd as a commissioner, with responsibility for establishing a dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina. Awed by the physical beauty of the land, Byrd wrote this entry in his diary: "This is a land rich even unto the fabled lands about Babylon. The air is wholesome, and the soil equal in fertility to any in the world." He further described it as the "Wonderful Land of Eden." In 1733 he received his grant of twenty thousand acres, and named it, "The Land of Eden," and said in his immortal book, it was the most beautiful section he had ever seen. All of Spray and Draper, and much of Leaksville were within the confines of Byrd's tract. When Leaksville's radio station, the first in Rockingham County, went on the air in December, 1946, the call letters, with perfect propriety, were WLOE, representing the "Wonderful Land of Eden."
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