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    Tryon is a town in Polk County, on the southwestern border of North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 1,562. Located...
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    William Tryon (8 June 1729 – 27 January 1788) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as governor of North Carolina from 1764...
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  • Tryon County is a former county which was located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It was formed in 1768 from the part of Mecklenburg County west...
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    site. William Tryon was a British officer and colonial official who served as the governor of North-Carolina from 1765 to 1771. Tryon had seen the need...
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    district of Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. The area is split into four wards by the intersection of Trade and Tryon Streets, and bordered by...
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    Margaret Wake Tryon (c.1732 – 1819) was an English heiress and the wife of William Tryon, who served as the Colonial Governor of North Carolina and the Colonial...
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  • communities: Tryon, Nebraska Tryon, Gaston County, North Carolina Defunct counties: Tryon County, New York Tryon County, North Carolina USS Tryon (APH-1),...
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    Sunnydale is a historic commercial building located at Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect J. Foster Searles and built about...
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    consider him the favorite to win. Josh Stein, North Carolina Attorney General (2017–present) Chrelle Booker, Tryon city councilor (2019–present) and candidate...
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  • The Tryon County Regiment was authorized on August 14, 1775 by the Province of North Carolina Congress. It was subordinate to the Salisbury District Brigade...
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    Crystal R. Fox (category People from Tryon, North Carolina)
    2020 thriller A Fall from Grace. Fox was born in Tryon, North Carolina. She moved from North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia in 1979 and attended middle school...
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    Defense, served as the Royal Governor of North Carolina until his death in 1765. William Tryon succeeded him. Tryon had a lavish home built in 1770 in New...
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  • Richard E. Blanchard Sr. (category People from Tryon, North Carolina)
    child and youth in Indiana and North Carolina. Rev. Ralph Blanchard moved from Wolcottville, Indiana, to Tryon, North Carolina, in 1942, bringing his family...
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  • Margaret Culkin Banning House, is a historic estate located near Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina. The house was built in 1924, and is a large, two-story, Tudor...
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  • adopted and signed by "subscribers" to the Tryon County Association that was formed in Tryon County, North Carolina in the early days of the American Revolution...
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  • William Behrends (category People from Tryon, North Carolina)
    Trophy. A native of North Carolina, Behrends maintains a studio in Tryon, North Carolina. He studied architecture at North Carolina State University and...
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  • Mills House, is a historic plantation house located near Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina. It was built about 1847, and is a two-story, five-bay, Federal...
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    William Gillette (category People from Tryon, North Carolina)
    Torrington Road—his only mystery novel. In 1891, after first visiting Tryon, North Carolina, Gillette began building his bungalow, which he later enlarged into...
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  • Jedermann in cooperation with Veniero Colasanti. He was born in Tryon, North Carolina, in 1924. He died in Lugano, Switzerland, on September 27, 2006...
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  • each ride. Together they represented New Zealand at the games in Tryon, North Carolina. The 120-kilometre race that Barack Obama participated in was abandoned...
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  • Lilian Jackson Braun (category People from Tryon, North Carolina)
    during a 2005 interview with the Detroit News. Finally she lived in Tryon, North Carolina, with her second husband of 32 years, Earl Bettinger, and their...
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    The 2000 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 2000. The general election was between the Republican nominee, former mayor of Charlotte...
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    and North Carolina, drawn 1585–1586 by Theodor de Bry, based on map by John White of the Roanoke Colony Reconstructed royal governor's mansion Tryon Palace...
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    The U.S. state of North Carolina is divided into 100 counties. North Carolina ranks 28th in size by area, but has the seventh-highest number of counties...
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    Roxboro. North Carolina Highway 15 (NC 15) was an original state highway, established in 1921. It began at the intersection of Trade and Tryon Street in...
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    Barbara Alexander Brady, who became an actress. Alexander died in Tryon, North Carolina on January 10, 1981, aged 82. She was buried in the Fairmount addition...
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  • Tryon County is the name of two former counties in the United States: Tryon County, New York- 1772-1784 Tryon County, North Carolina- 1768-1779 This disambiguation...
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    525 North Tryon (also known as Odell Plaza) is a 330 feet (101 m) office highrise located in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. It is the 25th tallest...
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    Nina Simone (category People from Tryon, North Carolina)
    time on various lists. Simone was born on February 21, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina. Her father, John Divine Waymon, worked as a barber and dry-cleaner...
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    is a historic estate at 222 Stone Hedge Lane in Polk County, North Carolina, north of Tryon. The main house is a two-story structure, built primarily out...
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