Topics Related to This Day in North Carolina History

On January 20, 1779, the North Carolina General Assembly abolished Bute County less than 15 years after establishing it.

On January 3, 1837, Nimrod Jarrett Smith was born near what is now Murphy at the height of the Cherokee removal.

On January 14, 1771, Joseph Montfort was appointed Grand Master of the Freemasons of America by the Duke of Beaufort, Grand Master of England.

On January 3, 1787, frontiersman William Sherley Williams was born in what’s now Polk County.

On January 12, 1909, Stonewall Jackson Training School, a state correctional facility for juvenile male offenders, opened near Concord.