Main Street from Jackson County Courthouse, Sylva, NC

            Incorporated in 1889, Sylva was named for William Demetrius Selvey, a wanderer whom was a farmhand at the Hampton Farm in 1879-1880, when a post office was established by the Hamptons at the present site of the town.  In the mid-1880s, the site was chosen as a stop on the Western North Carolina Railroad’s Murphy Branch, which led to rapid growth from a farm with a handful of people to a small town with a bustling business district.   Around the turn of the 20th Century, the town was selected by C. J. Harris at the site of a tannery, which led to further growth, turning the railroad stop into the main commercial center of Jackson County.  In 1913, a referendum held in Jackson County, with considerable influence from Harris, led to the county seat being moved from Webster, where it had been located since the county’s formation in 1851, to the bustling town of Sylva.  The Jackson County Courthouse was built in 1913 atop a hill at the end of Main Street, and in the 1920s, the town went through a major building boom, which saw the replacement of most of the late 19th Century and early 20th Century buildings with new brick structures.  Today, the town remains a vibrant heart of Jackson County, as well as the Cullowhee Micropolitan Area, and the historic center of town was listed as the Downtown Sylva Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
   

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Taken on: December 19, 2023

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