Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Tryon, NC

Tryon is a town in Polk County at the foot of the Blue Ridge escarpment, and its motto is 'The Friendliest Town In The South.'

Tryon was named for William Tryon, who served as Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 and was honored for negotiating a treaty with the Cherokee after the French and Indian War.

Tryon was incorporated in 1885, and the town's original boundary was drawn as a perfect circle with a radius of three-quarters of a mile.

The 2020 census counted 1,562 people in Tryon, living in 823 households.

Tryon is the birthplace of legendary singer and pianist Nina Simone.

The railroad reached the site of Tryon in 1877, and construction toward Asheville paused there for two years; the town's current depot dates to 1922, and passenger service ended in 1968.

Just west of Tryon, the railroad climbs the Saluda Grade, the steepest standard-gauge mainline railroad grade in the United States before the line became inactive.

Tryon sits in a 'thermal belt' on the Blue Ridge escarpment, a quirk of mountain weather that gives the town an unusually mild climate.

Morris the Horse, the giant toy-horse statue at the corner of Trade and Pacolet streets, has been Tryon's mascot since 1928, when Tryon Toy Makers' craftsmen built the first one to advertise the Tryon Horse Show; the current fiberglass Morris dates to 1983 and appears on the town seal.

The Tryon International Equestrian Center in nearby Mill Spring, a 1,600-acre venue about 13 miles from town, hosted the FEI World Equestrian Games in September 2018.