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Bryson City North Carolina & Swain County Area History

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European settlement began after the Cherokee Indian cession of 1798. The Cherokees surrendered the remainder of the land in an 1819 treaty.

In 1871 the North Carolina general assembly made Swain a county, taking land from Jackson and Macon counties. It was named for David L. Swain a former governor and president of the University of North Carolina.

The first court was held at Cold Spring Meeting House. Commissioners were to select a site for the courthouse and lay out a town named Charleston, to become the county seat. Charleston was renamed Bryson City in 1889 in honor of Colonel Thad
Dillard Bryson.
 
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