Prior to its formation in 1849; Watauga County was a hunting ground for the Cherokee and part of the trail blazed by frontiersman Daniel Boone; for whom the county seat was later named. Primarily settled by whites after the Revolutionary War; many of the county�s earliest families came to the Appalachians from the Piedmont region of North Carolina and; prior to that; from the North�New England; Pennsylvania; Maryland; and Virginia. These settlers were mainly of European extraction�English; German; Scottish; Irish; Swiss; and Welsh�along with a smaller African representation. Nestled in the panoramic Blue Ridge Mountains and unimagined by its early agrarian inhabitants; Watauga would become one of North Carolina�s premier tourist destinations and home to Appalachian State University.
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