Racking Horses for Sale near Canton, NC

About Canton,NC

The area was first settled in the late 1780s. By 1790 Jonathan McPeters was farming the banks of the Pigeon River where Canton now stands. Around 1815 the first church was built in what was to become Canton; it was called the Locust Old Field Baptist Church. Canton was founded in 1889 as "Buford". Later that same year the name was changed to "Vinson".