1777 Rafts, linen and a district seatPlte, plátno a sídlo okresu

The eighteenth century was the town's recovery. People wove linen, ground corn, drove cattle and above all built rafts: timber cut in the Orava forests was lashed into plte and floated down the river to the Váh and on to the lowland, dangerous skilled work that fed whole villages. The estate itself was no longer a single lord but the Orava Composessorate, a company of Thurzo heirs who ran the valley jointly from the early seventeenth century until serfdom was abolished in 1848. In 1777 Tvrdošín became the seat of a district, which meant clerks, a court, and a reason for the surrounding villages to come to town on business.Osemnáste storočie bolo pre mesto časom zotavenia. Ľudia tkali plátno, mleli obilie, hnali dobytok a predovšetkým stavali plte: drevo vyrúbané v oravských lesoch zviazali do pltí a splavili po rieke do Váhu a ďalej do nížiny — nebezpečné remeslo, ktoré uživilo celé dediny. Panstvo už nemalo jedného pána, ale spravoval ho Oravský komposesorát, spoločenstvo thurzovských dedičov, ktoré dolinu držalo od začiatku 17. storočia až do zrušenia poddanstva v roku 1848. V roku 1777 sa Tvrdošín stal sídlom okresu, čo znamenalo úradníkov, súd a dôvod, prečo okolité dediny chodili do mesta vybavovať.