When was swain county created

The Recreation Department has updated the football and cheerleading programs. The Swain County Board of Commissioners are accepting nominations for appointments.

Swain County has an opening for a Dispatcher. About Swain County Geographically, the county is spectacular. Community Announcements The Board of Elections will meet on Tuesday, November 9th, beginning at am for canvass to certify the election results at the Board of Elections office, located at Highway 19 South. After the creation of Swain County, the commissioners divided this land into lots and sold them at auction.

Thus began the village, first known as Charleston. The new county was alloted square miles and Charleston was selected as the county seat in June. By this time, white settlers had located in the lowlands around the rivers and creeks, and a few brave-hearted souls had moved into coves far into the mountains. These settlers included no large landowners and very few men of wealth.

Predominately, they were of Scottish, Scots-Irish, or English ancestry of the yeoman class. Swain County, North Carolina.

Year Established. County Seat. Significance of County Name. Population David Lowry Swain. Legislative Act Creating County. County Evolution by Decade. Official County Website. Click Here.

Historical Post Offices. American Revolution. American Civil War. Although tourism is the main source of revenue in Swain County, the county also gains income from forestry and from agricultural commodities such as burley tobacco, tomatoes, boxwoods, ornamentals and other nursery crops, Christmas trees, beef cattle, and dairy products. Minerals in the county include kyanite, pegmatite, clay, feldspar, quartz, garnet, pyrite, magnetite, and thulite.

Swain County is the site of several historic landmarks, among them Nantahala No. Prominent among the county's cultural institutions are the Museum of the Cherokee Indian and the long-running outdoor drama Unto These Hills , presented in Cherokee and telling the story of the Eastern Cherokees' removal to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. In the estimated population of Swain County was 13, For an annotated history of the county's formation, with the laws affecting the county, boundary lines and changes, and other origin information, visit these references in The Formation of the North Carolina Counties Corbitt, , available online at North Carolina Digital Collections note, there may be additional items of interest for the county not listed here :.

Corbitt, David Leroy. The formation of the North Carolina counties, Rudersdorf, Amy. Comments are not published until reviewed by NCpedia editors at the State Library of NC , and the editors reserve the right to not publish any comment submitted that is considered inappropriate for this resource.