A couple of years ago Tripp Clement and his wife, Katherine, were rummaging through an upstairs room when a cardboard box fell on the floor.
Clement turned the box right-side up and spied a faded document on top. The flowing penmanship of another age made him stop and look more closely.
“Does that say 1756?” he asked. “Surely, that can’t be real.”
Read Mark Wineka’s column in Thursday’s Salisbury Post to discover what else Tripp and Katherine found in the box rich with Rowan County history.