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Gilberttown Chosen as Rutherford County Seat in Early Days
After Rutherford formed from Tryon in 1779 a series of acts appointed commissions to lay out a county seat. Gilberttown emerged as the county seat, with a wooden courthouse completed in 1802. The seat remained there until 1834 when it moved to Rutherfordton.
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Tryon County
Sampson Lambkin
Benjamin Hardin
John Walker
John Guillet
General Assembly
Rutherford
Lincoln
Col
Thomas Welch
Abraham Kuyrkenendel
John Earles
John Potts
Rutherfordton
Gilberttown
Rutherford County
Gilberts
John Earle
Robert Porter
William Whitesides
James Miller
Andrew Hampton
James Holland
Forks of Shepherds's
Tryon Coun
N. C
North Carolina
Felix Waller
William, Nevil
James Whitesides
Aexander McDonald
William M'Murry
Assembly
Wiersena
State of
North Carlina
Felix Walker
Wiliam Nevil
Thomas Rowland
Gilbertown