Watauga County, North Carolina
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| County Seat | Boone | ||||||||
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United States 
North Carolina Watauga County
Contents |
County Courthouse
History
The area that became Watauga and Ashe counties was part of Anson County during the early period; part of Rowan County in 1753, Surry County in 1771, Wilkes County in 1777 and was briefly part of the State of Franklin from 1784-89. After Franklin it was claimed as part of Washington County (part of the Southwest Territory, and later Tennessee) until it was annexed back by North Carolina into Wilkes County again in 1792.[1] Ashe was incorporated as a separate entity by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1799. North Carolina erected Watauga County primarily from Ashe County in 1849.
Parent County
1849--Watauga County was created from Ashe, Caldwell,Wilkes, and Yancey Counties.
County seat: Boone [2]
County histories are available such as:
- A History of Watauga County, North Carolina : with sketches of prominent families by John Preston Arthur (1915)
Boundary Changes
Record Loss
1873--Courthouse fire destroyed all of the land records and most of the court records.
Places/Localities
Populated Places
- Beech Mountain
- Blowing Rock
- Boone
- Seven Devils
Neighboring Counties
Resources
Cemeteries
- Watauga County Cemetery Records North Carolina (Interment.net)
Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records
- Howard's Chapel
Court
Land
Local Histories
- Arthur, John Preston, A History of Watauga County, North Carolina with Sketches of Prominent Families, 1915, reprinted 2002. (information in Genealogy.com)
Maps
Military
Newspapers
- Watauga County, North Carolina Obituaries (Newspaper Obituaries)
- Watauga Democrat
Probate
Taxation
Vital Records
Yearbooks
- Appalachian State University: 1923-2006
- Watauga County students at NC colleges - via the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index
Societies and Libraries
- Watauga County Historical Society, Boone, North Carolina
Web Sites
- NCGenWeb: Watauga County - free genealogy resources; part of the national USGenWeb Project
- Family History Library Catalog
- Watauga County Genealogy (North Carolina Genealogy)
- Watauga County, North Carolina (New River Notes)
- Watauga County, North Carolina (RootsWeb)
- Watauga County, North Carolina (Wikipedia)
- Watauga County, North Carolina Cemetery Inscriptions (Access Genealogy)
- Watauga County, North Carolina Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
- Watauga County, North Carolina Genealogy Forum (GenForum)
- Watauga County, North Carolina Genealogy Links (Genealogy Links)
- Watauga County, North Carolina GenWeb Archives (U.S. GenWeb Archives)
- Watauga County, North Carolina History, Records, Facts, Genealogy, and Ancestry (Family History 101)
References
- ↑ Arthur L. Fletcher, Ashe County: A History (Jefferson, N.C.: Ashe County Research Assoc., 1963), 33-34.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
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