Rutherfordton North Carolina and Rutherford County North Carolina * Area History

The History Of Rutherfordton North Carolina
Where The Piedmont Meets The Mountains
Rutherfordton North Carolina Located In Western North Carolina

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Rutherford County was formed in 1779 from Tryon County when it was divided to form Rutherford and Lincoln counties. Located in the southwest section of
the state, it is bounded by the state of South Carolina.

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It was named for Griffith Rutherford (1731-1800), Indian fighter, member of the Provincial Congress and Revolutionary general.

By 1540, some 47 years after Columbus discovered the New World, Hernando DeSoto arrived in the mountain country of this region, where he found the Cherokee Tribe already in an advanced state of civilization.

The Indians lived in substantially-built log houses. Though accomplished hunters, they subsisted chiefly by their knowledge of agriculture.

The area was a fine place in which to live, as the first white settlers quickly learned. Several decades before the Revolution a sprinkling of families had set down their roots in the mountain coves in the midst of the Cherokee hunting lands.

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