Wilkesboro, North Carolina Wilkesboro, North Carolina Former Wilkes County Courthouse, now the Wilkes Heritage Museum Former Wilkes County Courthouse, now the Wilkes Heritage Museum Location of Wilkesboro, North Carolina Location of Wilkesboro, North Carolina County Wilkes Wilkesboro is a town in and the governmental center of county of Wilkes County, North Carolina. The populace was 3,413 at the 2010 census. The town is positioned along the south bank of the Yadkin River, directly opposite the town of North Wilkesboro.
Wilkesboro was established in 1800 and quickly designated as the county seat.
For many decades a prominent historic spot in Wilkesboro was the "Tory Oak", a large oak tree from which Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, a well-known Wilkes County patriot amid the American Revolutionary War, hung Loyalist militia leaders who supported the British King and opposed American independence from Britain.
The oak was positioned behind the old Wilkes County courthouse.
Hemphill House, Johnson-Hubbard House, Old Wilkes County Jail, St.
Paul's Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Wilkes County Courthouse, Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church, and Wilkesboro-Smithey Hotel are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wilkesboro is served by the Wilkes County Schools system.
Most of Wilkesboro's high school students attend Wilkes Central High School; it is positioned in the adjoining improve of Moravian Falls.
Wilkes Early College, based at Wilkes Community College, and one charter school, Bridges Charter School in State Road, North Carolina, offer other high-school options to Wilkesboro's students. Middle school students in Wilkesboro attend Central Wilkes Middle School, positioned in Moravian Falls, while the elementary schools that serve the town are Wilkesboro Elementary, Moravian Falls Elementary, and CC Wright Elementary.
Wilkesboro is the home of Wilkes Community College, a public, coed, two-year college inside the North Carolina Community College System.
Wilkesboro is served by a several media sources based in close-by North Wilkesboro.
The Wilkes Journal-Patriot is Wilkes County's biggest and earliest journal and is presented three times per week.
Wilkesboro is also served by the larger Winston-Salem Journal out of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Wilkes County's two biggest airways broadcasts are broadcast from North Wilkesboro: WKBC-FM (97.3 FM) broadcasts Adult Contemporary (hot AC) and WKBC (AM) (800 AM) broadcasts American Country music.
Wilkesboro's biggest industry is the Tyson Foods poultry refining plant; it is one of the biggest poultry plants east of the Mississippi River. The town also contains a several textile and furniture factories. North Wilkesboro Speedway In the 1850s they settled near Wilkesboro, adopted the town as their home, and married two small-town sisters.
Deneen Graham (born 1964), the first black woman to be crowned Miss North Carolina (1983), was raised in Wilkesboro.
Montford Stokes (1762 1842), a United States Senator and Governor of North Carolina from 1816 to 1832, lived in Wilkesboro.
Like most of Wilkes County, Wilkesboro has long been a bastion of the Republican Party.
Wilkesboro's biggest theological group are the Southern Baptists, but the town does contain substantial numbers of Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Episcopalians.
The first two churches to be established in Wilkes County were assembled in Wilkesboro; they were missionary churches for the Episcopal and Presbyterian denominations.
The town also contains Wilkes County's only Roman Catholic church.
Municipalities and communities of Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States County seat: Wilkesboro Elkin North Wilkesboro Ronda Wilkesboro This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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Towns in Wilkes County, North Carolina - Towns in North Carolina - County seats in North Carolina - Populated places established in 1800
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