ashe county nc history

A Look Back at the History of Ashe County

by Peter Bangma, 2006 https://www.ncpedia.org/geography/ashe Ashe County is located in the northwestern corner of North Carolina, bordered by Tennessee and Virginia. Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, the county was formed in 1799 from portions of Wilkes County and named for Samuel Ashe, governor of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798. Its county seat, Jefferson, was […]