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The first court was ordered to be held at the home of Jesse Holland until a courthouse
for Gaston County could be erected. Commissioners were named to select a site for the county
seat as near the center of the county as possible provided it was within
two miles of Long Creek Baptist Meeting House. They were to acquire land,
lay out a town by the name of Dallas, and erect a courthouse. Dallas continued
to be the county seat until Gastonia was selected
as the county seat by popular vote in 1909.1
Gaston County was named in honor of William
Gaston, a member of Congress and a Justice of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina.1
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