How Shelby’s First Town Lots Were Advertised Across Two States

Mamie Jones wrote that after the decision to locate the county seat at Shelby, the August 1841 Court ordered the commissioners to lay off the town lots, public square, and streets, and then sell the lots at public sale, beginning on the first Monday in October and continuing until all lots were sold.

The court further ordered that notice of the sale be published in multiple newspapers, not just locally. Jones listed them specifically: the Charleston Courier, Columbia Chronicle, Raleigh Register, Greenville Mountaineer, Rutherford Intelligencer, Lincoln Republican, and the Whig Banner.

She noted that all Cleveland County courts, after that initial period, were held in Shelby, marking the permanent establishment of the town as the county seat.

Source: Mamie Jones.