The county lies in the Piedmont area of central North Carolina.

They brought Gee Chee culture from the coast to the Piedmont area.

The Piedmont area had long been inhabited by indigenous peoples.

Settler John Smith arrived at the Piedmont area around 1883.

It is a system of faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east.

The 2000 edition of the race was not held because of torrential rain which caused catastrophic mud slides in the Piedmont area.

During the late 1870s, there was increased violence in the Piedmont area, where whites tried to suppress minority black voting in elections.

Fresh egg pasta is well known in the Piedmont area near the border of France.

Badin Lake is in the Piedmont area of North Carolina.

Although the Iroquois never settled the Piedmont area, they entered it for hunting and raiding against other tribes.