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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.)

Montgomery County Genealogy Resources

Montgomery County NCGenweb site

New Montgomery County NCGenWeb site

Montgomery County NCGenWeb Archives

Montgomery County Historical Society
P.O. Box 161
Mount Gilead, NC 27366

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Census

1790 Federal Census Transcription

1850 Federal Census Index

1850 Federal Census Transcription – Folder with text files including index.

1880 Federal Census Partial Transcription – Township names for the filenames in this directory.

Montgomery County Cemeteries

USGS Listing of Cemeteries in Montgomery County, NC

Cemetery Transcriptions

Montgomery County Census Transcriptions

Montgomery County Cemetery Census

Query Forums

Montgomery County, NC Query Forum

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Sheriff: Montgomery County fatal shootings not random – WRAL.com


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Sheriff: Montgomery County fatal shootings not random
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Star, NC — A 50-year-old man accused of shooting four men at McBride Lumber Co. in Montgomery County Friday morning targeted his victims, Sheriff Dempsey Owens said. Ronald Dean Davis, 50, turned the gun on himself after the shooting spree.
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Home invasion suspect arrested in North Carolina – Washington Post


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Home invasion suspect arrested in North Carolina
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A suspect in home invasion robberies last week in Bethesda, Wheaton and Temple Hills was arrested Saturday in North Carolina, authorities said. Montgomery County police said Kevin Ray, 33, of Fort Washington was identified in the Bethesda and Wheaton
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DA: ‘Monster’ mom a ‘sadistic, manipulative criminal’ – phillyBurbs.com

DA: 'Monster' mom a 'sadistic, manipulative criminal'
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While several of her friends cried in the audience, an Upper Dublin mom showed no emotion as deputies handcuffed her and led her out of a Montgomery County courtroom Friday to begin serving a prison sentence for abusing her adoptive daughter.

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Lumber company shooting survivor speaks – abc11.com


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Lumber company shooting survivor speaks
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STAR, NC (WTVD) — The only survivor of the January shooting rampage at a Montgomery County lumber yard is speaking out about that tragic day. Florentino Aparicio said not a day goes by that he does not have flashbacks of the day he lost four of his

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Sierra Nevada decides on NC location for $70 million brewery – Roanoke Times

Sierra Nevada decides on NC location for $70 million brewery
Roanoke Times
Montgomery County officials said in October that Sierra Nevada considered a parcel in the Falling Branch Corporate Park that was eventually picked by Backcountry.com for its new facility. Montgomery County spokeswoman Ruth Richey emphasized Wednesday

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Star, NC Creates Big Business For The Department Of Defense – WFMY News 2


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Star, NC Creates Big Business For The Department Of Defense
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Star, NC — With a population a tad over 800, this Montgomery county town is creating big news for the Department of Defense. Carolina Growler will begin building Munitions Trailers for the Navy and Marine Corp this year. The Government is requiring


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