Newland is a town in Avery County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 698 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Avery County.

Before its founding, the area was known as “Old Fields of Toe”. It was an into the future muster arena in the campaign adjoining Indians and past the Battle of Kings Mountain. On November 9, 1783 the house was granted to Colonel Waightstill Avery.

The reveal comes from the legend of Estatoe, pronounced ‘S – ta – toe’, about an Indian chief’s daughter who fell in love with a warrior of a challenger tribe. Because their adore could never be trendy by either’s families, they jumped from a precipice into the depths of a understandable river. In an alternative version, their adore caused a bloody war between the tribes and Estatoe crafted a good relations pipe following two stems in which both chiefs could smoke at once. The two enemy chiefs assembled their respective followers upon the bank of the river, and smoked till good relations was concluded and Estatoe married her lover.

In 1899, the Linville River Railway (LRR) began rail encourage in the area, with a flag stop at “Old Fields”. In 1911, upon the establishment of Avery County, Old Fields of Toe was designated as the site for the county seat and was renamed Newland, after the North Carolina Lieutenant Governor William C. Newland. In 1912, the Newland Post Office was established; while in 1913, the Avery County Courthouse and Avery County Jail opened (both in the National Register of Historic Places). In that thesame year, Newland was incorporated as a town. In 1914, the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC), successor of the LRR, opened the Newland Depot, which was equipped with telephone and telegraph services; burned next to in 1921, but was soon rebuilt and continued operations till 1940.