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The act establishing Yancey County named and authorized commissioners to purchase land, lay out a town, and erect a courthouse. Burnsville, named for Captain Otway Burns of Beaufort, North Carolina, who won fame in the War of 1812, is the county seat.1
Yancy County is named in honor of Bartlett Yancey, an eloquent orator, many times a member of the Legislature, speaker of the State Senate and member of Congress. Yancy was also one of the earliest advocates of the public school system in North Carolina. Burnsville, the county seat, was named for Captain Otway Burns of Beaufort, North Carolina, who won fame in the War of 1812.1
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