Inseparable by Yunte Huang

Author:Yunte Huang
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liveright

Part Four

LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL

(1839–1861)

CHANG AND ENG’S HOUSE, TRAPHILL

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Traphill

Traphill—a rustic name derived from rail-pen traps that an early settler had built on the hills to ensnare wild turkeys—sat quietly in a verdant valley between the Blue Ridge and Stone Mountain, twenty miles northeast of Wilkesboro. Close to the Roaring River, Traphill was so isolated that later it would become the locale of frequent robberies and murders by bushwhackers and deserters during the Civil War. And if we move the needle of time even a bit farther toward the future, Traphill would become a center for mass production and exportation of moonshine in the Prohibition era. In the hills, hollows, caves, and “cutthroat ridges”—so named because they were inaccessible to intruders without the use of lethal force—flourished countless moonshine stills hidden well beyond the reach of law. Even as late as the 1960s, as depicted on The Andy Griffith Show, the area was still a haven for bootleggers.

It was here that Chang and Eng, outlaws in a very different sense, would build their first homestead, buying a plot of land and signing a deed:

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