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Murphy is a town in and the county seat of Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States. [4] It is situated at the confluence of the Hiwassee and Valley rivers. It is the westernmost county seat in the state of North Carolina, approximately 360 miles (580 km) from the state capital in Raleigh.
The Cherokee Scout has been published weekly in Murphy since 1889. After merging with The Andrews Journal on January 1, 2019, the Scout has been the only newspaper serving Cherokee County. [73] WKRK 1320 AM, WCVP 600 AM, and WCNG 102.7 FM are three radio stations currently broadcast from Murphy. Local TV 4 is a Murphy-based television news station.
U.S. Route 19 bridge over the Valley River at Murphy, North Carolina in 1937. The Valley River is a tributary of the Hiwassee River.It arises as a pair of springs in the Snowbird Mountains of Cherokee County, North Carolina and descends 2,960 feet (900 m) [5] in elevation in approximately forty miles (64 km) to enter the Hiwassee embayment at present-day Murphy, North Carolina.
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Fort Butler Memorial Park marks the site of the fort today. Fort Butler was an important site during the Cherokee removal known as the Trail of Tears.Located on a hill overlooking present-day Murphy, North Carolina on the Hiwassee River, Fort Butler was the headquarters of the Eastern Division of the U.S. Army overseeing the Cherokee Nation.
Murphy’s third courthouse was constructed in 1868 by reusing the brick from the first courthouse. It was a square, two-story building that the county quickly outgrew. In 1892, a fourth, larger courthouse was built on the site of the current marble courthouse at the corner of Central and Peachtree streets, down the road from the traditional ...