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The first court for Cleveland COunty was ordered to be held at the home of William Weathers. At this court the justices were to obtain a place to hold future courts until a courthouse was erected. Commissioners were named to acquire land and lay out a town by the name of Shelby where the courthouse and jail were to be located. In 1887 an act was passed changing the spelling of Cleveland from "Cleaveland county" to "Cleveland county." Shelby was incorporated in 1843 and is the county seat.1
Cleveland County was named in honor of
Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, a noted partisan leader of the western Carolina
frontier and one of the heroes at Kings Mountain.1
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