1820s |
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1827 |
 Mountain transportation saw further improvement with the completion of the Buncombe Turnpike running from north of Asheville, NC, to Greenville, TN |
1830s |
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1838 |
 The federal government forced the majority of the Native Americans of the region, predominantly the Cherokee, to move to present-day Oklahoma |
1850s |
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1851 |
Madison County, NC, was incorporated |
1860s |
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1860 |
(November 6th) The Republican victory of President Abraham Lincoln led seven Southern states to secede from the Union |
1861 |
 (April 12th) The first shots of the Civil War were fired by Confederate forces attacking Fort Sumter in South Carolina |
1861 |
 (May 20th) North Carolina became the last Confederate state to declare its secession from the Union |
1863 |
(July) Victory at Gettysburg, PA, was the turning point at which the Union began to win the Civil War |
1865 |
(April 9th) The end of the Civil War came with the collapse of Confederate resistance after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, VA |
1865 |
 (April 14th) President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC |
1868 |
(July 4th) North Carolina was readmitted to the Union |
1870s |
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1870 |
 (February 3rd) The Fifteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution was ratified, providing all male citizens of the United States with the right to vote |
1870 |
The population of Madison County had grown to 8,192 residents |
1872 |
 Bright leaf tobacco was introduced in western North Carolina and proved its profitability even when grown in small quantities |
1880s |
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1881 |
 Completion of the Western North Carolina Railroad opened the region to profit-making opportunities that had previously been out of reach |
1890s |
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1890 |
The population of Madison County grew to 17,805 |
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