Hickory is located in the foothills
of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in North
Carolina's Piedmont region. Hickory
had its start in the 1790s as a tavern,
and was incorporated as a city in 1870.
It is the hub of the state's fourth-largest
metropolitan statistical area, the
Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir metro area.
Hickory, located in Catawba
County, is 57...