Carl Edwards with his wife Katherine. (Getty). Katherine Downey is the wife of NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, and the couple have now been together for nine years. Downey may not just be one of the smartest and busiest wives in just the NASCAR world, but in the entire professional sports world as well.
Town of McCormick. McCormick County and its county seat, the town of McCormick, were named for inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). The county was formed in 1916 from parts of Edgefield, Abbeville, and Greenwood counties. This area was settled in the mid-eighteenth century by Scotch-Irish, French Huguenot, and German farmers.
THE FOUNDING OF GEORGIA. It had been more than five decades since the British had established a new colony. James Edward Oglethorpe, a philanthropist and an English general, along with twenty-one other men, created a charter to settle a new colony which they named Georgia in honor of King George II.