Richard: People forget that at the time of the Revolutionary War, the western part of North Carolina was still a kind of Wild West — there weren’t a lot of services or courthouses.
Diane L. Richard: People forget that at the time of the Revolutionary War, the western part of North Carolina was still a kind of Wild West — there weren’t a lot of services or courthouses. But it had been a great land in terms of people just wanting to start a new life; that’s why Moravians and Quakers came here for religious tolerance. North Carolina is a state of huge migration.