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Tryon County, North Carolina

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Date: 1768 to 1779
Location: North Carolina, United Statesmap
Surnames/tags: North_Carolina Appalachia
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History

Tryon County was formed in 1768 from Mecklenburg County. It was named for the governor of North Carolina at the time, William Tryon.

The county seat, Tryon Courthouse, was designated in 1775 & located 8 miles southwest of present-day Lincolnton, NC. From its formation until the designation in 1775, there was no county seat for Tryon County.

Following the Battle of Lexington in Massachusetts on 19 April 1775, 49 residents of the county gathered at the courthouse & issued the Tryon Resolves, a declaration of resistance to coercive actions by the British Empire against its North American colonies.

The Tryon resolves were among the earliest of many local colonial declarations, although it was not a statement of independence. It was signed on 14 August 1775, predating the United States Declaration of Independence by almost 11 months.[1][2]

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Rutherford County exists today as one of North Carolina's 31 counties in Appalachia.[3]

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Adjacent North Carolina Counties

Northwest
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Rowan County
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Rowan County
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North Carolina
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Mecklenburg County
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Southwest
Georgia
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South Carolina
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South Carolina

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Footnotes
  1. Wikipedia: Tryon County, North Carolina (accessed 24 July 2022).
  2. 2.0 2.1 North Carolina County Formation Maps (accessed 24 July 2022).
  3. See WikiTree's Workspace for Appalachia Project - North Carolina, a project page of the Appalachia Project. See also the North Carolina table on the project's Space: Counties of Appalachia page.




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