Dillsboro, North Carolina Dillsboro, North Carolina Dillsboro is a town in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States.
The town is a prominent tourist location, at which visitors tend to stop on their way into the Great Smoky Mountains.
The town of Sylva is positioned just one mile (1.6 km) east of Dillsboro and is the county seat.
The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad begins in Dillsboro and follows the historic "Murphy Branch" constructed in the 1880s.
Dillsboro is positioned at 35 22 11 N 83 15 4 W (35.369671, -83.251114). The town's altitude above sea level is 1,975 feet (602 meters.) According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 205 citizens , 111 homeholds, and 45 families residing in the town.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 16.6% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 24.9% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 31.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $18,750, and the median income for a family was $27,188.
The per capita income for the town was $14,365.
The Jarrett House, the historic barns hotel on Haywood Road in downtown Dillsboro.
Dillsboro was established when the Murphy Branch Railroad came to the region in the 1880s.
The unincorporated village was called Depot, New Webster, and Webster Station until the state council had its name officially changed to Dillsboro when the village was incorporated as a town in 1889 to honor William Allen Dills, the town's founder (another origin names George W.
Dill, an early settler.) One of the earliest buildings in the town dates to the 1870s, before the town was officially founded, now serving as a barber shop.
The building is one floor and was assembled on Front Street when the town was largely farmland.
In a mostly short time period, Dillsboro became a grow town; by 1888, it was the most meaningful town on the Murphy Branch of the Southern Railway in the areas of Industry, with two sawmills, two clay mines, a locust pin company, a corundum crushing plant, a chestnut pole yard, a chestnut corkwood yard, two livery stables, six general stores, a large hotel, and a shoemaker.
A rivalry existed between Sylva and Dillsboro in their early days, as the accomplishments of one town were matched by the other, and the two suburbs were very much alike, and the same distance from the then-county seat of Webster.
This is why Sylva is the more powerful town today. Dillsboro's populace has declined over the years, mostly due to little new housing being assembled in the town limits and the fact that many homes are now shops in the downtown area.
Wilson became mayor due to many write-in votes, Dillsboro has made a prosperous accomplishment to restore many older buildings in the town to their initial appearance.
Unfortunately, a several historic buildings were lost in the decades preceding this accomplishment, including a several homes, store buildings, the Depot, and a very substantial structure that once served as the town's school, Town Hall, and Masonic Lodge, though the school later moved in the early 1900s to a frame building that served as a school until 1951 in a residentiary area, of which little remains, which was positioned athwart Scotts Creek from downtown. Today Dillsboro is very much alive, even with the downturn of the economy and the departure of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad.
The town is looking to be revitalized and it will surely change the face and identity of this town for the future, including addition of more parks along the river, new assembly in the downtown area, and perhaps a more varied economy clean water the town's historic tourist-driven economy. Gertrude Dills Mc - Kee, first woman propel to the North Carolina State Senate, was a native of Dillsboro; she was the daughter of William Allen Dills. The train wreck scene in the 1993 blockbuster movie The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones was filmed on a portion of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Dillsboro. The wreckage set can still be viewed on eastbound train excursions from Bryson City to Dillsboro.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Jackson County, North Carolina "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Dillsboro town, North Carolina".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Tuckasegee River revival: Demolition of Dillsboro dam restores aquatic life, Smoky Mountain News (retrieved 3 July, 2014) Take a Ride with 'The Fugitive': The Great Smoky Mountain Railroad of North Carolina Provides Exclusive Look at Train Wreck, Yahoo Movies (retrieved 3 July, 2014) Town of Dillsboro Municipalities and communities of Jackson County, North Carolina, United States This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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Towns in Jackson County, North Carolina - Towns in North Carolina - Populated places established in 1882 - Communities of the Great Smoky Mountains
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