The County Seat is Jefferson.
Ashe County was established in the North Carolina General Assembly in 1799.
The County was named for a Revolutionary War patriot, Samuel ASHE.
Major Abraham WOOD led a surveying party west into the Virginia wilderness
about 1740, where they discovered an unknown river that flowed north. They
named this river Wood River, but later this river was renamed to the
New River. In 1752, Bishop Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg, was also an early
explorer to the present day Ashe County.
Settlers began to settle the area around Winston-Salem around 1770. Ashe County is
located in the Northwestern Corner of North Carlina, it lies West of the Blue
Ridge Mountains and it borders with Wilkes County.
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