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About Gaston County
Gaston County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 227,943. The county seat is Gastonia. Dallas served as the original county seat from 1846 until 1911.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
At a glance
Gaston County at a glance
- County seat
- Gastonia
- Population
- 227,943 (2020)
- Land area
- 364 sq mi
- Founded
- 1846
Communities
Largest communities in Gaston County
- Gastonia county seat80,411
- Dallas Township23,896
- Mount Holly17,703
- Cherryville Township16,714
- Belmont15,010
History of Gaston County
The earliest European settlers of Gaston County were principally Scots Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, and English. In the 1750s, Dutch settler James Kuykendall with Robert Leeper, and others constructed a Fort at the Point at the junction of the Catawba and South Fork Rivers. The fort was built because of ongoing hostilities with the Cherokee, but it was apparently never attacked. Tensions between the settlers and the Native American inhabitants (primarily of the Catawba tribe) were eased considerably when the boundary dispute between North Carolina and South Carolina was settled in 1772, after which most of the Catawba settled on a reservation near Fort Mill, South Carolina. Most early farms in the area were small, cultivated primarily by white yeoman farmers of English ancestry.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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