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| 1808 Map - Ashe County, North Carolina (LOC) |
From the National Registration of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form:
Grassy Creek [Ashe County, North Carolina], a small agricultural community set in a stream valley of that same name, lies to the south of the trade route between· Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, and Jefferson, North Carolina, and owes its prominence.as the leading agrarian society in the New River Valley to the Greer family who were among the earliest settlers.
Aquilla Greer, who established the· family homestead, came to Grassy Creek near the turn of the eighteenth century and built a substantial, two-story, brick, late-Federal style house as the seat of his· large farm. Much of the land in the Grassy Creek Historic District was a part of his ·original holdings. The Greer family farm prospered during the ownership of Aquilla and his son, John F. Greer, but it was during the period between 1885 and 1920--when the third and fourth generations of the Greer
family operated farms that Grassy Creek enjoyed its greatest prosperity. [Source]
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