In 1767 William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina ( 1765 — 1771 ), alerted to the heavy bloodshed in this part of western North Carolina, traveled to the area and negotiated peace treaty with the Cherokee, establishing a boundary line between a location near Greenville, South Carolina the highest point on White Oak Mountain ( renamed Tryon Peak by the settlers ).

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

* 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

However, he was wrecked on HMS Victoria when it collided with HMS Camperdown ( the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon ) off Tripoli on 22 June 1893 ; the Admiral, 21 officers and 350 men drowned.

* June 22 – The flagship Victoria of the British Mediterranean Fleet collides with Camperdown and sinks in 10 minutes ; Vice-admiral Sir George Tryon goes down with his ship.

* January 9 – William Tryon, governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina, signs a contract with architect John Hawks to build Tryon Palace, a lavish Georgian style governor's mansion on the New Bern waterfront.

2, 600 loyalists and British regulars under General William Tryon, governor of New York, raided the 3, 500-person town in July 1779, but did not torch it as they had with Danbury in 1777, or Fairfield and Norwalk a week after the New Haven raid, leaving many of the town's colonial features preserved.

Camperdown in 1893 and sank with the loss of 358 men, including Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

follows: " The British generals ... repaired to the house of a Mr. Robert Murray, a Quaker and friend of our cause ; Mrs. Murray treated them with cake and wine, and they were induced to tarry two hours or more, Governor Tryon frequently joking her about her American friends.

Tryon Peak and the Town of Tryon are named for William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 in recognition of his negotiation with the Cherokee for a treaty during a bloody period of the French and Indian War.

In search of gold, de Soto explored the Asheville area and met with Cherokee Indians in Xuala, the area now known as Tryon.

Map of Polk County, North Carolina with Municipal and Township labelsIn 1839 a post office was established at the base of Tryon peak, both named after Governor Tryon.

The group, affiliated with the Photographic Society of America, meets monthly and conducts an annual contest where winning submissions are exhibited in the Tryon Fine Arts Center.

Tryon Arts and Crafts SchoolEstablished in 1960, Tryon Arts and Crafts provides the community with creative opportunities " through education, instruction, and expression of heritage and contemporary arts and crafts " created and showcased at the school.

Grace Hall, a local resident who had been trapped in her home for three weeks, wrote to the Tryon Daily Bulletin with an idea: form a local crafts center so that area residents would have the knowledge to create arts or crafts so that in the wake of another blizzard they would have something to do with their time.

The Tryon Concert Asscoation provides a series of four concerts from the fall through spring with talent that rivals that of large metropolitan cities.

" Much of that started with Carter Brown who came to Tryon from Michigan in 1917 and opened the Pine Crest Inn, a place where moneyed northerners could enjoy riding horses or play golf during the winter months.

* March 12 – The North Carolina General Assembly establishes Wake County ( named for Margaret Wake, the wife of North Carolina Royal Governor William Tryon ) from portions of Cumberland, Johnston and Orange counties.

Lane named Wake County in honor of Margaret Wake, wife of colonial Governor William Tryon.

William and his wife Sarah and the remainder of the Whiteside children knew they too needed more abundant land and followed Robert, but decided to go further south and settle in the southwestern North Carolina, in Tryon County near the First Broad River.

In 1951 Alfred Colby Hockings and his wife — he was a well-known illustrator for Field and Stream magazine, originally from Wisconsin but most recently living in the artists ' community of Tryon, North Carolina —- built a home up the street from the Gasques and Sorrys and across from the Baarslags ; at almost the same time another Dutch family — Gerbrand and Nellie Poster, the son-in-law and daughter of the Baarslags, came down from New York City to visit her parents for Christmas, decided to stay, and built a home next door to her parents.

A typical sentence from his fiction is a passage from The House Behind the Cedars: " When the first great shock of his discovery wore off, the fact of Rena's origin lost to Tryon some of its initial repugnance — indeed, the repugnance was not to the woman at all, as their past relations were evidence, but merely to the thought of her as a wife.

Tryon portrays Lieutenant, junior grade, later Lieutenant and Lieutenant Commander, William " Mack " McConnell, a conventional type of young surface naval officer only a few years removed from the Naval Academy, with a characteristic Navy wife of the period ( played by Paula Prentiss ), who is ever solicitious and faithful, a true family man with an enviable marriage, in stark contrast to Eddington's almost tragic and isolated figure.

Tryon was born at Bulwick Park, Northamptonshire, England, the third son of Thomas Tryon and his wife Anne Trollope.

On the advice of Gifford, Tryon and his wife built a summer house in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts in 1887.

In 1973 at the height of his popularity, Donovan met actor-turned writer Tom Tryon and the two entered into a long-term relationship the following year.

Tryon was chosen to represent the British on the commission which first met 29 August.

At the same time, General Hugh Waddell, supporting Governor Tryon, en route with his contingent of 236 men was met by a large contingent of Regulators.

In the film Glenn Tryon and Barbara Kent play two lonely New Yorkers who live in adjoining apartments but have never met.

R. Tucker Abbott, Samuel Stehman Haldeman, Henry A. Pilsbry, and George W. Tryon, Jr. were other noted malacologists who worked at the Academy.

More than half of Tryon ’ s full-time residents are " transplants " from other areas of the country, some of whom have helped to create the cultural center that continues to attract other writers, educators, artists and professional people like themselves to the Tryon area.

Upon learning that she was marooned on the island with a man, Stephen Burkett ( Tom Tryon ) — whom she knew as " Adam " to her " Eve " — he becomes jealous and suspicious of her fidelity.

This Patrick resided in the dreams and imagination of Tryon and is the basis for many of his characters ( all of whom, notably, die horrific deaths ).

On March 12, 1772, present day Cortland County became part of Tryon County, named for William Tryon, colonial governor of New York.

The old Tryon County courthouse, later the Montgomery County courthouse, became the Fulton County Courthouse, where it is the oldest operating courthouse in New York.

Five years later, the area became part of Tryon County, North Carolina, which comprised all of North Carolina west of the Catawba River and south of Rowan County.

The Mohawk District, which became the original Town of Mohawk, was created in March 1772 by Sir William Johnson when Tryon County was split off from Albany County.

The particular spot that became the town of Tryon was the point were construction of the railroad to Asheville stopped for two years.

As a means of correction, in 1920 Tryon became a town from a city since it had less than 10, 000 residents.

After the American Revolution, Johnstown became part of Montgomery County when the name of Tryon County was changed to honor the Continental General Richard Montgomery, who died at the Battle of Quebec.

As the City of New York suffered severe budget constraints in the 1970s and funds for parks were decimated, Fort Tryon Park fell into disuse and disrepair and its gardens, woodlands, and playgrounds became havens for a range of illegal activities.

In May 2009 the Friends became The Friends Committee of the Fort Tryon Park Trust.

Tryon had an extremely lavish home built in 1770 in New Bern ( now known as Tryon Palace ), which became one of the main points of resentment for the Regulators, who were already paying substantial taxes.

He held several local political posts and became a protégé of colonial governor William Tryon.

His artistic convictions affirmed, Tryon married, quit his job at the bookstore and became a full-time artist.

In New York, Tryon became friends with artists Robert Swain Gifford and Thomas Dewing.

A Detroit industrialist, Charles Lang Freer, first bought a painting by Tryon in 1889 and became his most important patron.

* Clementia Heathcote ( died 1922 ), who married Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon ( 1832 – 1893 ) in 1869 and became mother of the 1st Baron Tryon.