Gaston County, North Carolina

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Gaston County, North Carolina
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Location in the state of North Carolina
Location of North Carolina in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	December 21, 1846
County Seat	Gastonia
Courthouse
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County Courthouse

Gaston County Courthouse
325 N Marietta St
Box 1578
Gastonia, NC 28053
Phone: 704-868-7684

Register of Deeds has birth, marriage and death records from 1913
Land records from 1847
Clerk Superior  Court has divorce and court records^[1]

History

Parent County

1846--Gaston County was created 21 December 1846 from Lincoln County.
County seat: Gastonia ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

1874--Courthouse fire destroyed many court records.

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Cleveland
• Lincoln
• Mecklenburg
• York County, South Carolina

Resources

Cemeteries

• Gaston NCGenWeb - cemetery listing
• Gaston County cemeteries on Find-A-Grave

Census

For tips on accessing Gaston County, North Carolina census records online, see: North Carolina Census.

Church

Court

Land

• BLM General Land Office records have searchable land records for North Carolina.

Local Histories

• High Shoals, Gaston county, N.C., a Southern cotton mill town (1908)

Maps

Migration

Early migration routes to and from Gaston County for European settlers included:^[3]

• Occaneechi Path pre-historic
• Lower Cherokee Traders' Path pre-historic
• Catawba and Northern Trail pre-historic
• Fall Line Road about 1735 (overlapped Occaneechi Path)
• Great Valley Road (south fork) 1740s (overlapped Occaneechi Path)
• Upper Road about 1783 (overlapped Lower Cherokee Traders' Path)

Military

Civil War

Civil War Confederate units - Brief history, counties where recruited, etc.

-11th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry

Newspapers

Probate

Schools

• Sacred Heart College - founded in 1892 by the order of the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy. Closed in 1987.
• Gaston County College Students - a name list of students at various NC colleges with identified hometowns in the county.

Taxation

Vital Records

Societies and Libraries 

• Gaston-Lincoln Genealogical Society
• Gaston-Lincoln Regional Library System

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Gastonia North Carolina Family History Center

Web Sites

• Gaston County, NCGenWeb - free genealogy resources; part of the national USGenWeb project.
• Family History Library Catalog

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Gaston County, North Carolina. Page 509 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
3. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 847-61. (FHL Book 973 D27e 2002) WorldCat entry., and William E. Myer, Indian Trails of the Southeast. (Nashville, Tenn.: Blue and Gray Press, 1971), 12-14, and the book's pocket map "The Trail System of the Southeastern United States in the Early Colonial Period" (1923). (FHL Book 970.1 M992i) WorldCat entry.

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