Montgomery
Montgomery county was founded in 1779 from Anson County. The county seat of Montgomery County is Troy. Montgomery County was named for General Richard Montgomery who was killed in 1775 during the Revolutionary War attempt to capture City.
Part of Montgomery County (to the west of the Pee Dee River) was used to create Stanly County. The county is made up of the following townships: Biscoe, Candor, Mount Gilead, Star, Troy. Although the current county seat is Troy, earlier county seats (from the official Montgomery County website):”The first county seat was Tinsdale (or Tindalsville) on the west bank of the river. Among the many roving county seats are references to Blakely, Henderson, Stokes and Lawrenceville. Tindalsville was wiped out by an epidemic of typhoid fever. The roving county seats were burned and their county records lost.” The division of the county by the Pee Dee river had led to the controversy over where to place the county seat since at that time travel was made VERY difficult by the dividing river. This ultimately led to the split of Stanly county on the west side of the Pee Dee River. The county was split in 1842 and the new county seat (present day Troy) was established at West Old Fields.
The current name of the county seat, Troy, was due to the prominence of a popular attorney in the judicial district, John B. Troy. Legend says that the streets of Troy were paved with gold. It seems that fill dirt from the nearby Eldorado gold mine was used during the paving of the streets. Those with a sharp eye were said to have found gold nuggets in the streets. Eldorado had been a thriving mining community to the north of Troy.
Montgomery County is also home to the Uwharrie National Forest (50,129 acres). (It extends into Randolph and Davidson Counties.)
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Mount Gilead, NC 27366
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SDO Satellite and $32 million experiment to be launched to study the sun/space … – Examiner.com
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Examiner.com Montgomery County, Pennsylvania declared a Code Blue winter weather advisory until Monday due to an approaching winter storm (A Code Blue declaration is … |
Record-breaking snowstorm underway (well to our north) – Examiner.com
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Record-breaking snowstorm underway (well to our north)
Examiner.com Reports as of 10:30 am EST include 33 inches at Berkeley Springs, WV, 26 inches in north-central Montgomery County, Maryland (near Germantown), … |
Body Found Near Badin Lake Identified – WFMY News 2
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Body Found Near Badin Lake Identified
WFMY News 2 Davidson County Sheriff's Office was called to Badin Lake Road near Montgomery County around 10:30 Friday night. Investigators found a dead woman in the … Officials investigate homicide after body found Friday |
Continuous updates: Southwest Virginia sees major snowstorm – Roanoke Times
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Continuous updates: Southwest Virginia sees major snowstorm
Roanoke Times "We've gotten used to this drill so we're prepared as we'll ever be," said Ruth Richey, a spokeswoman for Montgomery County. Check back at roanoke.com and … |
Winter storm warning from noon today to noon Saturday – Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
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Winter storm warning from noon today to noon Saturday
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle As of 4:18 am, Montgomery County was under a winter storm warning for noon today through noon … DC-area Braces for Winter Storm |
