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5 unusual facts about Tryon


Battle of New Haven

See Tryon's raid for Battle of New Haven (American Revolutionary War), a 1779 American Revolutionary War battle in New Haven, Connecticut, during which British forces captured Black Rock Fort

Mark Schweizer

Schweizer is the president and editor of St. James Music Press in Tryon, North Carolina.

Richard Lockridge

Richard Orson Lockridge (September, 26, 1898 in St. Joseph, Missouri - June 19, 1982 in Tryon, North Carolina) was an American writer of detective fiction.

Tryon's raid

Tryon assembled a force of 2,600 men, and embarked them on a fleet commanded by Sir George Collier.

William Schurman

Schurman remained loyal to Britain during the American revolution and, in 1783, immigrated to Tryon on St. John's Island (later Prince Edward Island).


Baron Tryon

Charles George Barrington Tryon (b. 1976),; he is a godson of the Prince of Wales and a former Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II.

Dale Tryon, Baroness Tryon

To help her recover from her medical treatments, Tryon became very interested in alternative medicine and a wide variety of spiritual practices; she also decided to undertake a retreat in the Himalayas.

Dwight William Tryon

Tryon traveled and sketched Europe with his wife, and met Abbott Handerson Thayer and his wife with whom he became friends.

In addition to his painting, Tryon taught at Smith College from 1886 to 1923, visiting part time to critique students' work and, late in his career, establishing the Tryon Gallery of Art.

Edward Tryon

Edward P. Tryon is an American scientist from Terre Haute, Indiana and a professor of physics at Hunter College in Manhattan.

James R. Tryon

After serving briefly at the United States Naval Hospital in New York City, Tryon spent the last two years of the Civil War at Pensacola, Florida, caring for sick and wounded officers and men of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.

Nathaniel Fillmore

He was the first of only four fathers (the other three being Dr. George Tryon Harding, Sr., Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and George H. W. Bush) to live through the entire presidency of a son.

Nicholas Herkimer

When he learned of the siege of Fort Stanwix to the west in late July 1777, he ordered the Tryon County militia to assemble at Fort Dayton.

North Carolina Highway 108

The section from Tryon to Mill Spring closely follows the front range of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Perth, New York

Mike Tyson, boxer, was a one-time resident of the Tryon School for Boys in the town.

War of the Regulation

Tryon had an extremely lavish home built in 1770 in New Bern (now known as Tryon Palace).


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