About Surry County, NC

After last year, this is shocking! Every day 60 degrees and big beautiful blue skies like this? Well, it certainly makes listing this 165 acre farm a treat.... I walked the whole thing on Friday doing my Visual Tour... I had to take off my fleece jacket. We rarely get listings for this much land in our area - and this is unique because about 95 acres of it is cleared, fenced pasture! I love my job.

Pilot Mountain is a part of the Sauratown Mountains, an ancient range named after the Saura Indians. Its knob, called Big Pinnacle, is part of a monadnock (an isolated mountain or hill formed by erosion). The knob is made of hard quartzite and the mountain around it is weathering away faster than the knob. Geologists believe the Sauratown Mountains were once part of the shores of an ancient ocean. Beach sands were made up of almost pure quartz grains. Through a series of continental collisions begininning over 460 million years ago, heat and pressure changed the sand into hard rock.

Thin layers of quartzite, inclined at different angles, can be seen today at the base of the knob. Other metamorphic rock, including mica schist, can be found on Pilot Mountain. Some of the rock is so old that it is difficult to determine its origin. A great book to read more: "Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas" by Kevin G. Stewart and Mary-Russell Roberson

Pilot Mountain and Pilot Mountain State Park is located in Surry County, North Carolina - next door to Mayberry (!)

Yes, i have to say i do remember when mules pulled sleds through the tobacco fields.... even when we had tractors, mules were still used when it was too wet to put a tractor in the fields...they seemed so huge when i was small!

This is such an amazing picture! it looks like it was taken out west, but actually i took the pic in Lowgap, NC. The sky was a great backdrop - i had to stop the car and climb up a hill and lean over a barbed wire fence - but the horses were very curious so I had no problem keeping their attention...

This is the best part of my job - just seeing new things every day!