Tryon, North Carolina Tryon, North Carolina Trade Street, Tryon, North Carolina Trade Street, Tryon, North Carolina Location of Tryon, North Carolina Location of Tryon, North Carolina Tryon is a town in Polk County, North Carolina, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 1,646. Located in the escarpment of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the region is a center for outside pursuits, equestrian activeness and fine arts.
Tryon Peak and the Town of Tryon are titled for William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 in recognition of his negotiation with the Cherokee for a treaty amid a bloody reconstructionof conflict amid the French and Indian War.
The region now known as Tryon was originally part of the Cherokee country of Western North Carolina, archaeological evidence dates their occupation of the site to the end of the last Ice Age more than 11,000 years ago and semi-permanent villages appeared by 8,000 B.C.
Map of a portion of de Soto's route, including Cherokee village Xuala (now Tryon) Having landed near present-day Panama City, Florida on May 30, 1539, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto assumedly traveled up to what is now Spartanburg, South Carolina and north to North Carolina. Traveling on horses, de Soto and 1,000 men appeared in North Carolina mid-May, 1540. In search of gold, de Soto explored the Asheville region and met with Cherokee Indians in Xuala, the region now known as Tryon.
After a day or two de Soto continued his journey with provisions provided by the Cherokee. Luys Hernandez de Biedma, one of de Soto's officers wrote of a group of men who made their way to what is now Tryon on May 21, 1540: After Tryon, de Soto went to Gauxuile (now Asheville) which in Cherokee meant "The place where they race", titled for the walk around the perimeter of the village. As conflict and tension increased, defensive forts were constructed, one of which was the "Block House" near Tryon. In 1767 William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina (1765 1771), alerted to the heavy bloodshed in this part of North Carolina, traveled to the region and negotiated a peace treaty with the Cherokee, establishing a boundary line between a locale near Greenville, South Carolina the highest point on White Oak Mountain (renamed Tryon Peak by the settlers).
In the spring of 1776 Cherokee met on Round Mountain and prepared an attack on the "Block House", Earl's Fort in Landrum, South Carolina and Young's Fort near the current town of Mill Spring, North Carolina.
In 1839 a postal service was established at the base of Tryon peak, both titled after Governor Tryon. Tryon may not have be the town it is today had it not been for the barns .
In 1877 the barns provided transit from the South Carolina seaports to North Carolina, Tennessee and the Ohio Valley. The particular spot that became the town of Tryon was the point were assembly of the barns to Asheville stopped for two years.
West of Tryon, the barns ascends the Blue Ridge along the Saluda Grade, which was the steepest barns undertaking in the nation before becoming inactive.
At the peak of barns expansion in 1885, Tryon was incorporated. By the 1890s, there were six daily stockyards stops in Tryon. The current depot building, assembled in 1922, is the third depot built.
Passenger service to Tryon ended in 1968. As a means of correction, in 1920 Tryon became a town freshwater a town/city since it had less than 10,000 residents. Oak Hall, Tryon, NC Ballenger and his father-in-law assembled the Tryon Hotel at 77 Chestnut Street at Melrose.
Tryon is positioned near a "thermal belt", an region generally no-charge of dew and frost, provides an appreciateable climate year-around. It was the initial draw of many of Tryon's visitors and residents.
However, data indicate that Tryon has a similar climate to comparable areas of the Piedmont.
Climate data for Tryon, North Carolina (1917 2010) More than half of Tryon's full-time inhabitants are "transplants" from other areas of the country, some of whom have helped to problematic the cultural center that continues to attract other writers, educators, artists and experienced citizens like themselves to the Tryon area. Tryon's churches include: Grace Foothills Church (PCA) which meets in the historic Tryon Theatre, Tryon Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), Holy Cross Church & Chapel (Episcopal), Congregational Church, St.
Andrews on the Coxe Plantation, was moved to Tryon in 1955.
The southern exposure of Tryon's hills provides a conducive surrounding for orchards and vineyards.
Bed and Breakfasts and Inns in Tryon include: Tryon Fine Arts Center Tryon Fine Arts Center The Tryon Fine Arts Center, positioned on Melrose Avenue in Tryon, is a visual and performing arts center that offers music, drama, film and other cultural programs.
The group, affiliated with the Photographic Society of America, meets monthly and conducts an annual contest where winning submissions are exhibited in the Tryon Fine Arts Center. Tryon Arts and Crafts School Tryon Arts and Crafts School Established in 1960, Tryon Arts and Crafts provides the improve with creative opportunities "through education, instruction, and expression of tradition and intact arts and crafts" created and showcased at the school.
Grace Hall, a small-town resident who had been trapped in her home for three weeks, wrote to the Tryon Daily Bulletin with an idea: form a small-town crafts center so that region residents would have the knowledge to problematic arts or crafts so that in the wake of another blizzard they would have something to do with their time.
Many agreed, including architect Carter Brown and Tryon philanthropist Violet Parish-Watson.
In April, 1960 200 region residents pledged a one-dollar membership fee to support what would be called Tryon Crafts, Inc.
"Recapturing Tryon's history as an artist's colony," small-town artisans began selling work and teaching classes.
After residing in a several locations, Tryon Arts & Crafts (named since 2004) is positioned at 373 Harmon Field Road, adjoining to Harmon Field.
Tryon Concert Association Tryon Concert Association claims to have been bringing "world-class artists" to Tryon since the first concert in January 1955 when baritone Robert Mc - Ferrin gave a recital.
The Tryon Concert Association provides a series of four concerts from the fall through spring with talent that rivals that of large urbane cities. Tryon Little Theater The Tryon Little Theatre holds classes and workshops at the Tryon Little Theater Workshop on Highway 176.
Season performances by this organization can also be seen at the Tryon Fine Arts Center in Tryon. Tryon Youth Center Tryon Youth Center, positioned in a 5,300-square-foot (490 m2) building on US Highway 176, offers artistic, civil and recreational programs for the young citizens of the small-town area.
Annually a Youth Center Summer Musical manufacturing is held at the Tryon Fine Arts Center. Children's Theater Festival organized in 1978 offers "lively arts" for kids including: "Eight to ten different performances, encompassing theater, music, storytelling, mime, dance, puppetry, and more are brought to Tryon on a Saturday in late March." Local historian and former Tryon Riding and Hunt Club President Colonel Charles C.
Much of that started with Carter Brown who came to Tryon from Michigan in 1917 and opened the Pine Crest Inn, a place where cashed northerners could appreciate riding horses or play golf amid the winter months.
In 1925 Brown established and was the first president of the Tryon Riding and Hunt Club.
With Brown's inspiration, the Tryon Horse Show and the Block House Steeplechase were born in 1929 and 1934, in the order given.
The Tryon Horse Show "was so prominent that the schools were let out and most businesses closed for the afternoon," Ross said.
In 1956, the US Equestrian Team prepared and trained for the 1956 Olympics in Tryon.
The Tryon Horse Show remains today as the third earliest horse show and a rated United States Equestrian Federation event, and lesser shows are held at Harmon Field and the Tryon Horse Shows are at the Foothills Equestrian Nature Center (FENCE).
Morris, the Tryon Horse, stands at the center of Tryon.
The Tryon horse, a large version of toys made by the Tryon Toymakers and Woodcarvers, was first assembled in 1928 for the Tryon Riding and Hunt Club.
Morris serves as a billboard amid the Tryon Horse Show and Block House Steeplechase Races.
In May 2012, a group of Tryonite volunteers, in conjunction with the Town of Tryon and the Tryon Daily Bulletin (The World's Smallest Daily Newspaper!), banded together to raise cash for the restoration and maintenance of the badly deteriorating Morris.
Tryon International Equestrian Center In June 2014, the $100 million Tryon International Equestrian Center and Resort opened to host various multi-day, international-level equestrian competitions athwart a several disciplines in collaboration with the Tryon Riding and Hunt Club.
Located close to Mill Spring, the 1400-acre equestrian facility will features up to 10 riding arenas (including one with stadium seating for 6,000), 1,000 permanent stalls, elevated and shaded viewing decks, a large veiled riding facility and the Tryon Sports Complex, which will include a community club, game room, kid's camp, sports bar, children's playground, tennis courts, mountain bike park, climbing walls, basketball court, and a large pool.
The Lanier Library Association is titled for poet Sidney Lanier died September 7, 1881 in "the Wilcox home" on Highway 108 in Lynn, three miles (5 km) of Tryon, which has been since known as the Lanier House. The idea for a library was advanced in 1889 by five women from Tryon with the goal of being "the origin of intellectual and cultural stimulation for the community", accomplished through library membership to small-town women.
Tryon has a number of parks including: Rogers Park positioned in downtown Tryon is a park and an open-air amphitheatre.
Greene Corner, on Melrose Avenue athwart from the entrance to the Tryon Fine Arts Center, is a beautiful garden and gazebo often used for wedding photos.
Harmon Field, a 46-acre (190,000 m2) park in Tryon positioned on Harmon Field Road between US Hwy 176 and NC Hwy 108, is regularly used by town inhabitants and visitors.
Pearson's Falls off of the Pacolet River, between Tryon and Saluda, North Carolina Pacolet Scenic Byway, one of North Carolina Scenic Byways, is a ten-mile (16 km) portion of US 176 that runs from Tryon to Saluda.
Pearson's Falls Natural Heritage Site, titled for its 90-foot (27 m) waterfall, is owned and maintained by the Tryon Garden Club.
Located between Tryon and Saluda, it is offers a picnic region and hiking and biking trails for its customers. There is a one-quarter mile walk to the waterfall off from US 176.
Tryon in the media As an interesting connection to de Soto's travels, Margaret Culkin Banning's novel I Took My Love to the Country features the town "De - Soto", known to be Tryon, which thriving visitors for its climate, performing arts and equestrian affairs. In June Tryon hosts an annual barbecue festival which is visited by many all athwart the US.
Tryon is positioned west of Interstate 26 that runs northwest to Asheville and southeast to Spartanburg, South Carolina approximately one mile from the NC/SC border.
Katharine Alexander (1898 - 1981), actress, died in Tryon William Gillette, actor who assembled a home in Tryon; artists and writers, including Margaret Morley, were entertained by William Gillette in his home, which he inexplicably boarded up in 1910.
Nina Simone, singer, pianist, composer, and activist, was born Eunice Waymon at 30 East Livingston Street in Tryon.
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