History Sherrills Ford is so named due its being the site of the fording of the Catawba River from east to west by Adam Sherrill et al. ca. 1747. (The apostrophe in "Sherrill's Ford" was inadvertently dropped.) The Sherrills, of English ancestry, had come from northeast Maryland, most probably trekking through modern Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia.Sherrill Family Along with others, Adam Sherrill established the first settlement by people of European ancestry that far west, and his fine house was built by African-American twins whom he enslaved. Many Sherrill descendants still reside in Sherrills Ford.
History Sherrills Ford is so named due its being the site of the fording of the Catawba River from east to west by Adam Sherrill et al. ca. 1747. (The apostrophe in "Sherrill's Ford" was inadvertently dropped.) The Sherrills, of English ancestry, had come from northeast Maryland, most probably trekking through modern Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia.Sherrill Family Along with others, Adam Sherrill established the first settlement by people of European ancestry that far west, and his fine house was built by African-American twins whom he enslaved. Many Sherrill descendants still reside in Sherrills Ford.