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About Swain County
Swain County is a county located on the far western border of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,117. Its county seat is Bryson City.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
At a glance
Swain County at a glance
- County seat
- Bryson City
- Population
- 14,117 (2020)
- Land area
- 541 sq mi
- Founded
- 1871
Communities
Largest communities in Swain County
- Cherokee2,195
- Bryson City county seat1,558
History of Swain County
This area was occupied for thousands of years by cultures of indigenous peoples, who successively settled in the valleys of the three rivers and their tributaries. During the Woodland and South Appalachian Mississippian culture period, the latter beginning about 1000 CE, the peoples built earthwork platform mounds as their central public architecture. The more influential villages were each organized around a single mound with smaller villages nearby. The earliest European explorers, including two Spanish expeditions of the mid-to-late 16th century, are believed to have encountered Mississippian chiefdoms in some parts of the interior of the Southeast.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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