Remembering a local bridge builder

And a racial terror lynching in Catawba County, North Carolina

Bunker Hill Covered Bridge in Claremont, North Carolina (2018), built in 1884 by Andy L. Ramsour (December 24, 1817 — June 26, 1906).

If he had died in the 1860s, Andrew (Andy) Loretz Ramsour might still be mentioned in the history of the Catawba River Valley in North Carolina. Born in old Lincoln county in 1817, this third cousin five times removed operated an iron forge, gristmill, and sawmill on the Catawba River. He was the most…