CLOSING 

It is sad to say that thousands of people each year, traveling on Route # 837, pass the land where the old courthouse stood, without knowledge of it ever existing. This same route also passes directly through the camping grounds of the Colonial soldiers during the Whiskey Insurrection. It is now time that someone should be interested in restoring these great places of historic interest and value. 

For those who have traveled only the main roads in the area between Peters Creek and Mingo Creek, I suggest you travel the Ridge Road from Large to the James Chapel Church. Here, the scenery of the valley is beautiful. 

Again travel from Elrama to the top of the hill going to Gastonville. You can see a distance of several miles in any direction. The crest of the hill at Yants farm is the highest point in Union Township and the second highest in the county. 

Beginning at Peters Creek, traveling south on Route #837, to Mingo Creek, you will get a beautiful view of the river and see the highly industrialized plants located on the bottom land. 

If our own people would learn a little more of our own local history, they would not have to travel to other distant places for “sightseeing tours. The pioneers traveled west to settle and live. We travel east over the mountains for fun and pleasure. How times have changed. Can you imagine what it will be like in the next 200 years?