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==History== The area eventually encompassing Jones County was inhabited by [[Tuscarora people|Tuscarora]] Native Americans before the arrival of German and Swiss settlers in the early 1700s.<ref name= vocci/> The county was formed in 1779 from the southwestern part of [[Craven County, North Carolina|Craven County]]. It was named for [[Willie Jones (statesman)|Willie Jones]],<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n169 170]}}</ref> a planter, slaveholder, [[American Revolution|Revolutionary]] leader, and president of the North Carolina Committee of Safety during the war. He opposed state ratification of the [[United States Constitution]] and did not attend the [[Fayetteville Convention]], which voted to ratified it.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jones, Willie |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/J000262 |access-date=March 28, 2024 |website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Robinson |first=Blackwell P. |year=1988 |editor-last=Powell |editor-first=William S. |title=Jones, Willie |url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/jones-willie |access-date=March 28, 2024 |website=NCpedia |publisher=University of North Carolina Press}}</ref> In 1784, the town of [[Trenton, North Carolina|Trenton]] was made the county seat of government.<ref name="vocci">{{cite web |last=Vocci |first=Robert Blair |date=2006 |editor-last=Powell |editor-first=William S. |title=Jones County |url=https://www.ncpedia.org/geography/jones |access-date=March 28, 2024 |website=NCPedia |publisher=North Carolina Government & Heritage Library}}</ref> The rural Low Country county was originally developed for plantations, which were dependent on the labor of enslaved African Americans. The county's has heavily relied on agriculture (mostly [[tobacco]]) and lumber from its nearby forest.<ref name= vocci/> In 2004, the county's population slightly rose above 10,000 in a census estimate but has since decreased to 9,172 in the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name="2020CensusQuickFacts"/>
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