History Swain for County

Swain County's first court was ordered to be held at Cold Spring Meeting House. Special commissioners were named to select a site for the courthouse, provided all the commissioners could agree on a certain place. If they could not agree, the county commissioners were to submit the question of selecting a place to the voters. The county commissioners were to lay out a town by the name of Charleston which was to be the county seat. In 1889 Charleston was changed to Bryson City in honor of Colonel Thad Dillard Bryson.¹

Swain County was named in honor of David L. Swain, Governor of North Carolina and president of the University of North Carolina.¹


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¹ Facts gathered from State Library of North Carolina.

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