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Location: North Carolina, United States
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]
Categories
- Before 1768: Category:Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
- Category: Tryon County, North Carolina from 1768 to 1779.[2]
- After 1779: Category: Lincoln County, North Carolina or Category: Rutherford County, North Carolina (Rutherford County is in Appalachia; Lincoln County is not)
- Rutherford County exists today as one of North Carolina's 31 counties in Appalachia.[3]
Maps
- North Carolina County Formation Maps
- Maps of North Carolina
- Historical Atlases (North Carolina, Tennessee)
Adjacent North Carolina Counties
Northwest Tennessee |
North Rowan County |
Northeast Rowan County |
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West Tennessee |
Tryon County North Carolina |
East Mecklenburg County |
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Southwest Georgia |
South South Carolina |
Southeast South Carolina |
Resources
- Links from Category:Tryon County, North Carolina
- Footnotes
- ↑ Wikipedia: Tryon County, North Carolina (accessed 24 July 2022).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 North Carolina County Formation Maps (accessed 24 July 2022).
- ↑ 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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