Once upon a time...there was this land area called ...

Defunct Counties
 

• Map  1768-1772
• Map  1772-1779
• County Summary of Research Information
• Court Minutes, 1769-79

The Old Tryon County, of North Carolina was created in 1768 and was dissolved in 1779.  The boundaries consisted of portions of present-day Burke, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford Counties, NC.  Also consisted of present-day Cherokee, Spartanburg, and small portions of Chester, Greenville, Laurens, and York Counties, SC.

History of East TN before it was TN - TNGenWeb

Williams, Samuel Cole History of the Lost State of Franklin by Genealogical Publishing Com, 1933
ISBN 0806347406, 9780806347400

Map of GA 1796
[look at the upper right-hand corner.....]
 

Lands along northern border of Georgia and Old Pendleton Dist SC which after the Walton War became land in Haywood & Jackson Cos., NC.  Later, another county in GA was named Walton Co. which remains today over in the middle region of the state.  Other than both being named Walton, they share nothing in common.

Strip of land between Hamilton and Bradley Cos., TN bordering the Georgia State line.

Photo of Old Courthouse in Ooltewah, TN , now Mountain Oaks Wedding Chapel

All records for James Co. were transferred to Hamilton Co., TN

Milton Co. 1899 - © Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia

NOTE:  Cass Co., GA and Bartow Co., GA are the same land location in Georgia throughout Georgia's history.  Sadly, Cass Co. decided to change it's name in the mid-1800's just to confuse future genealogists.  If  you have a Bartow Co., GA ancestor, then be sure also research the earlier Cass Co. records as well; keeping in mind that they didn't move, just that the county they lived in simply changed its name.

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