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Andrews is a town in Cherokee County in North Carolina's far southwestern mountains, established in 1890 and incorporated in 1905.

The town was named for Colonel Alexander Boyd Andrews, a vice president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, who in September 1890 bought 50 acres for $1,200, had it platted, and sold lots to serve the Nantahala railroad construction camps.

Before Andrews, the settlement was known as Jamesville and then "Valley Town," and an Indian trading post was established in the area in 1837.

The Andrews valley held the Cherokee sister towns of Tomotla and Konohete, first built as Muscogee settlements with platform mounds before the Cherokee took over the sites by the early 1700s.

The remains of the Andrews Mound survived until 1975, when the landowner bulldozed it shortly after it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Andrews sits on the south side of the Valley River, a tributary of the Hiwassee River, at an elevation of about 1,770 feet in northeastern Cherokee County.

The town's first mayor, appointed in 1905, was David Samuel Russell, and its post office opened in 1890.

Historic Andrews properties on the National Register of Historic Places include the Franklin Pierce Cover House, the First Baptist Church and Walker's Inn.

The 2020 census counted 1,667 people in Andrews, down from 1,781 residents in 780 households at the 2010 census.

Andrews is the most populous town in Cherokee County, ahead of Murphy, with about 1,800 residents in recent Census Bureau estimates.