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History
Historians note that this area was originally explored in 1752
by Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg of Pennsylvania, who was
seeking land in the "back country" of North Carolina
for Moravian colonists to settle.
Although the Cherokee had hunted seasonally in this region,
the first permanent settlers came from Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and New England. Jordan Council established a store in what
is now downtown Boone.
Watauga County was formed in 1849, and the Town of Boone, which
was incorporated in 1872, was named for the legendary Daniel
Boone, who first explored and hunted in the region during the
1760s.
Early Watauga county explorers
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