Other new counties followed quickly. In less than 2 years 2.500 people had moved in. Immigration was encouraged and facilitated by official surveys of lands in the district. and a distinct rush was on. In 1825. a Knoxville newspaper noted that wagons. carts. and carriages passing to the West through that town amounted to from four to five thousand annually. In 1827. a correspondent from Buncombe County. N. C.. stated thatDuring the last 4 months the flow of emigration through Asheville has surpassed anything of the kind the writer has ever witnessed. It Is not uncommon to see 8. 10. or 15 wagons and carts passing in a single day * wending their way to the West. One Methodist presiding elder reported in 1820 that at least 500 members in his district had removed to the Jackson Purchase.
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