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Publication.Pdf 2 Information Please - Your Guide to Macon County 2016-2017 2016-2017 Information Please - Your Guide to Macon County 3 4 Information Please - Your Guide to Macon County 2016-2017 Welcome to Macon County! There’s a lot to love about Macon County, from its beauti- Macon County also offers the modern infrastructure and ful vistas and rugged mountains to its rich history and vibrant the amenities to support today’s connected lifestyles. Living culture. You won’t find a better place to “get away from it in a mountain paradise doesn’t mean that residents and visi- all” and still have easy access to the amenities of larger cities tors have to sacrifice the comforts found elsewhere. like Asheville and even Atlanta. This magazine is also your guide to making Macon your We’re confident that you’ll findInformation Please an in- home – the quality health care, the top-tier education, the dispensable roadmap to all that Macon has to offer. In these dedicated public safety organizations and the responsive pages you’ll find a guide to the great outdoors that defines governments. Macon life: its water-ways and waterfalls, its hiking and It all adds up to a quality of life you won’t find anywhere camping opportunities. else. About Information Please All subscriptions include access to our e-edition. This guide to Macon County is an annual publica- In Macon County . $30.00 per year tion of The Franklin Press. Established in 1886, The Outside Macon County . $50.00 per year Franklin Press, Macon County’s community newspaper, Seasonal Residents . $40.00 per year is published each Wednesday and Friday. Additional copies of Information Please are available online at thefranklinpress.com or at The Franklin Press Photos by: Linda Mathias & Franklin Press Staff office, 40 Depot Street, Franklin, NC. Cover photo by: Karen Lawrence To stay up to date on all the information and events Cover design by: Kasey Chambers in Macon County subscribe to The Franklin Press. Call (828) 524-2010 or subscribe at thefranklinpress.com. 2016-2017 Information Please - Your Guide to Macon County 5 Macon at a glance Macon County is home to more than 34,000 full-time residents. In a sense, however, the true population of the county is much higher. Because Macon contains so many second homes, the population increases during the late spring and summer months. The 516 square miles of Macon County include the towns of Franklin (the county seat) and Highlands, plus numerous smaller communities. The elevation ranges from 1,900 feet in the Little Tennessee River, to 4,118 feet in Highlands, to 5,500 feet near Standing Indian Campground. Temperatures vary from an average of 41 degrees in January, the coldest month, to an average of 78 degrees in July, the hottest. While the climate may be mild, there are still four distinct seasons. Average annual rainfall and Highlands also has the distinction its rural beauty, it is by no means iso- snowfall varies throughout the county of being one of the highest incorpo- lated. Franklin is situated along major due to the elevation changes. Franklin rated towns east of the Mississippi highways U.S. 23/441 and N.C. 64, averages just more than 54 inches of River. with easy access to interstates I-40, rainfall and 7 inches of snowfall. The The rugged mountains throughout I-26 and I-85. Atlanta is just 130 miles Highlands area, where elevations are the county boast plenty of woodlands, to the south; Knoxville is 110 miles to much higher, averages more than 70 and the rushing waters of the Cullasaja, the north and Asheville is just 65 miles inches of rainfall and an average snow- Little Tennessee and Nantahala rivers to the east. fall of about 12 inches — the greatest provide sources of power, natural beau- So, whether you live or play in this precipitation of any area east of the ty and recreation. area, everything you need is within Rocky Mountains. While Macon County is famous for your reach. Enjoy! 6 Information Please - Your Guide to Macon County 2016-2017 2016-2017 Information Please - Your Guide to Macon County 7 Macon through the centuries Prehistoric inhabitants of what is now Macon County are thought to have built this mound in about 1000 AD. Called Nikwasi, the mound is still visible in Franklin. The Cherokee built a townhouse at the site when they migrated into the area in the 16th century. Nikwasi was a spiritual center, and the townhouse was used for councils and religious ceremonies. Tracing the county’s rich cultural roots, from the Cherokee to pioneering settlers It’s been roughly 200 years since the first steps were tak- en to make Macon County into what it is today. And though the past has been dotted with some strife, the future has nev- er looked so bright. Macon County was a new frontier in 1819 when the Cherokee Indians, in a treaty concluded that year, gave up a large chunk of land extending as far west as the Nantahala ridge. The Cherokees held on to their remaining land un- til 1835, when their final treaty in North Carolina was ne- gotiated. Together, the two transactions transferred a huge territory that includes all of the present counties of Graham, Cherokee, Clay, Swain and Macon, along with part of Jackson and Transylvania counties. For a time, Macon County encompassed most of this area. As soon as word of the 1819 treaty got out, settlers rushed into the new territory, lured by the frontier promise of land and opportunity. They joined a handful of pioneers who had already put down roots here, trading with and, in some in- stances, intermarrying with the Cherokees. Legal ownership of land was not possible until after the huge territory was properly mapped and surveyed — a feat accomplished in 1820 under a survey party headed by Capt. Robert Love. The surveyors divided the region into 18 dis- tricts and laid out tracts of good land, mostly along the main 8 Information Please - Your Guide to Macon County 2016-2017 2016-2017 Information Please - Your Guide to Macon County 9 waterways. They also selected the site of the future coun- ty seat and named it for Jesse Franklin, a prominent North Carolina statesman and one of the commissioners charged with organizing the new territory. Settlement proceeded rapidly after the original land sale, which was held in Waynesville in the fall of 1820. Within eight years, the population was great enough to warrant es- tablishment of a new county — named for Nathaniel Macon, a prominent North Carolinian who had served in the U.S. Congress as both speaker of the House and president pro- tem of the Senate. The first settlers were largely of Scots-Irish, English and German descent, and most came from eastern parts of North Carolina or from the South Carolina upstate. Georgia and Tennessee also contributed their share of pioneer settlers. The county government was organized in 1829. Among its first undertakings was the construction of a courthouse — for $3,000. Other early business included the election of county officials and the establishment of road districts, which were worked by able-bodied male residents of the neighborhood. Slavery was never as important in the mountain coun- At the outbreak of the Civil War, Macon County claimed ties as in some other areas of the South. However, the 1830 about 3,000 adult men. From this small population, it raised census shows that about 10 percent of households included seven companies of soldiers for the Confederacy. Obviously, slaves. with so many men away at war, families endured hardship The major slave holders were wealthy merchants and and deprivation, as well as occasional strikes from outlaws planters such as Jesse Siler, William Angel, Thomas and renegades. Shepherd and members of the Love family. A small group When the war ended, word was late getting to Macon of free blacks also settled here very early, and records County, and the final surrender of Confederate forces in the show that they played an important role in the county’s state is thought to have occurred here, on May 14, 1865, at development. Dixie Hall. The Nantahala section was not settled until after the trea- Prosperity returned to the county during the 1870s, and ty of 1835, when the Cherokees ceded their remaining lands. the last part of the century saw a boom in building and de- This treaty, like the earlier one, was followed by the map- velopment. Many of the county’s significant older structures ping of the territory and a land sale, held in 1836 in Franklin. date to this period, including inns, commercial buildings and Settlement was relatively slow in this rugged territory, and residences. Important industries such as logging, mining and a number of Cherokees continued to live there until the tourism also developed at this time. Removal, when they were forced to leave. One of the major accomplishments of this period was During the Removal, Gen. Winfield Scott’s men built a the establishment of the Town of Highlands in 1875. S.T. stockade or fort in Aquone, on a site that was later a Civil Kelsey and C.C. Hutchinson founded the town on a site Conservation Corps camp during the Great Depression and chosen for its ideal climate and beauty. Many of its ear- is now under Nantahala Lake. ly buildings remain, including historic inns and fabulous The most prominent of the early settlers in Nantahala summer homes. was Nimrod S. Jarrett, who purchased huge tracts of prop- erty and led in the development of roads and industry.
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