Everything about Elizabethton Tennessee totally explained
Elizabethton is a city in and the
county seat of
Carter County,
Tennessee,
United States. It is also the site of the first independent American settlement west of both the
Eastern Continental Divide and the original thirteen
British colonies in America.
The population was 13,372 at the
2000 census.
Geography
Northeast Tennessee location
Elizabethton is centrally located in Northeast Tennessee at 36.344548 N, 82.201481 W.
Time offset from
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC):
UTC-5 (
Eastern Standard Time).
According to the
United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.4 square miles (24.3
km²), of which, 9.2 square miles (23.7 km²) of it's land and 0.2 square miles (0.6 km²) of it (2.35%) is water.
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The elevation at Elizabethton Municipal Airport is ASL (the highest point of elevation in Carter County is at
Roan Mountain with an elevation of ASL) and the airport is located on the eastern side of the city along State Highway 91 Stoney Creek Exit. Elizabethton is also connected to larger commercial, shuttle, and cargo flights out of
Tri-Cities Regional Airport located adjacent to the main campus of
Northeast State Technical Community College at nearby
Blountville, Tennessee.
Lynn Mountain reaches ASL at the summit (36.350°N, 82.191°W) and is located immediately across the U.S. Highway 19-E from the downtown Elizabethton business district.
Elizabethton also shares a contiguous western border with
Johnson City.
| Climate in Elizabethton, Tennessee |
| Month |
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| Avg °F (°C) | 34.0°F (1.1°C) |
37.4°F (3.0°C) |
47.2°F (8.4°C) |
55.2°F (12.9°C) |
63.4°F (17.4°C) |
71.1°F (21.7°C) |
74.4°F (23.6°C) |
73.6°F (23.1°C) |
67.9°F (19.9°C) |
56.7°F (13.7°C) |
47.0°F (8.3°C) |
38.2°F (3.4°C) |
55.5°F (13.1°C)
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| Avg high °F (°C) | 43.7°F (6.5°C) |
48.0°F (8.9°C) |
58.9°F (14.9°C) |
67.4°F (19.7°C) |
75.2°F (24.0°C) |
82.2°F (27.9°C) |
84.6°F (29.2°C) |
84.1°F (28.9°C) |
79.1°F (26.2°C) |
69.1°F (20.6°C) |
58.2°F (14.6°C) |
48.1°F (8.9°C) |
66.6°F (19.2°C)
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| Avg low °F (°C) | 24.3°F (-4.3°C) |
26.8°F (-2.9°C) |
35.4°F (1.9°C) |
43.0°F (6.1°C) |
51.6°F (10.9°C) |
59.9°F (15.5°C) |
64.1°F (17.8°C) |
63.1°F (17.3°C) |
56.6°F (13.7°C) |
44.2°F (6.8°C) |
35.9°F (2.2°C) |
28.2°F (-2.1°C) |
44.4°F (6.9°C)
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| Rain (inches) | 3.2in. |
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4.3in. |
3.2in. |
3.3in. |
2.6in. |
2.9in. |
3.4in. |
40.7in.
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| Snow (inches) | 5.2in. |
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15.6in.
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| Sources for Elizabethton climate statistics: climate-zone.com' |
Water resources
The
Doe River forms in
Carter County, Tennessee near the
North Carolina line, just south of
Roan Mountain State Park. The river initially flows north and is first paralleled by State Route 143; at the community of
Roan Mountain, Tennessee, it then continues to flow west and is at this point paralleled by
U.S. Route 19E. The Doe River flows to the east of Fork Mountain; the
Little Doe River flows by the Fork Mountain to the west.
Below the confluence of both the Doe River and the Little Doe River at
Hampton, and the Doe River then travels roughly in a northern downstream direction through the Valley Forge community, and is rejoined by U.S. Route 19E. Pushing through a mountain gap just north of Hampton, the volume of the river is amplified by the waters flowing from McCathern Spring.
Just before its mouth into the
Watauga River at the Carter County seat of Elizabethton, the Doe River is spaned by a wooden
covered bridge that's found within the Elizabethton historical downtown area. Further downstream of the Elizabethton Covered Bridge, you'll also find two identical concrete-arch bridges across above the Doe River in Elizabethton — the first being the Elk Avenue Bridge and the latter being the Broad Street Bridge — that were completed in 1928. The confluence of the Doe River and the Watauga River is approximately twenty minutes downstream from the Broad Street Bridge.
Two
Tennessee Valley Authority reservoirs in Carter County — each impounded behind TVA Watauga Dam (forming
Watauga Lake) and TVA Wilbur Dam (forming Wilbur Lake) — are located southeast and upstream of Elizabethton on the Watauga River. The
Appalachian Trail crosses over the Tennessee Valley Authority reservation in Carter County to the southeast of Elizabethton.
The
Watauga River flows past Elizabethton. Elizabethton lies on the south bank of the Watauga and along either side of its principal tributary, the
Doe River. The downtown business district is located approximately one-quarter mile upstream of the
confluence of both the Doe River and the Watauga River. The Doe River flows underneath the historic
wooden covered bridge that's located within the Elizabethton downtown business district.
The
Bee Cliff Rapids — a popular summer destination on the Watauga River for
whitewater rafters during the summer months — are located southeast of Elizabethton and downstream of the TVA Wilbur Dam.
The Watauga River downstream of the western side of Elizabethton has one of the only two sections of trophy
trout streams across the entire state of Tennessee.
Holston Mountain Communication Towers
Elizabethton itself lies within a river valley basin mostly surrounded by mountain ridges and significant hills, such as
Holston Mountain, the southern end of which lies just northeast of Elizabethton. Panhandle Road is located off State Highway 91 in Carter County and ascends Holston Mountain for three miles (5 km) from the eastern side and ends four miles (6.5 km) along the ridge southwest of
Holston High Point. During periods of heavy snow and ice, the National Forest Service closes off Panhandle Road with an iron gate.
Located near the Cherokee National Forest boundary and to the left of Panhandle Road is a parking area and foot trail that leads down the slope to the Blue Hole Falls (approximately high). The last three miles (5 km) of Panhandle Road are filled with washouts, steep drop-offs, and no turnarounds. Vehicle travel on those last three miles (5 km) is at the driver's risk.
Early broadcasters in the 1950s and 1960s quickly realized Holston Mountain would be a prime radio-television transmission location because it's the highest visible point that faces most of the major cities in
Northeast Tennessee in the surrounding valley between
Knoxville, Tennessee, to southwest of
Roanoke, Virginia. As a result, the Holston Mountain ridge is the transmitter site for three television stations in the
Tri-Cities, Tennessee Television
Designated Market Area (DMA). The broadcasting antenna for
WCYB-TV, Channel 5, Bristol, Virginia is on
Rye Patch Knob, with the top of the antenna 341 feet (104 m) above ground, 2,431 feet (741 m) above the surrounding valley floor, and 4,533 feet (1381.6 m) above mean sea level. The single tower that antenna sits on, is the highest and tallest man-made structure on the mountain. The television towers for
WJHL-TV, Channel 11,
Johnson City, Tennessee, and
WKPT-TV, Channel 19,
Kingsport, Tennessee, are standing side by side in a common broadcasting antenna farm on the southwest slope of
Holston High Point, one mile (1.5 km) southwest of
Rye Patch Knob. The antenna for
WJHL-TV stands 200 feet (61m) above ground, 2,319 feet (707m) above the surrounding valley floor, and 4,370 feet (1,332m) above mean sea level. The antenna for
WKPT-TV next door stands 193 feet (58.8m) above ground, also 2,319 feet (707m) above the valley floor, and 4,366 feet (1,331m) above mean sea level. The stations' digital antennas are also on their respective towers.
Holston Mountain is also the transmitting site for three FM Class C radio stations:
WTFM-FM 98.5, Kingsport, Tennessee;
WXBQ-FM 96.9, Bristol, Virginia and
WETS-FM 89.5, Johnson City, Tennessee. All three antennas and the backup antennas are located at the antenna farm on the southwest slope of
Holston High Point. Also located on the ridge are the antenna for one FM Class C1 radio station,
WHCB-FM 91.5, Bristol, Tennessee, located at
Rye Patch Knob; one FM Class C2 antenna for radio station
WCQR-FM 88.3, Kingsport, Tennessee, and one FM Class D antenna for radio station
W214AP-FM 90.7, Johnson City, Tennessee, both transmitting from the antenna farm on the southwest slope of
Holston High Point. Various U.S. federal, Tennessee state, Sullivan, Washington and Carter County governmental agencies, along with utility microwave relay stations, also transmit base-to-mobile communications from the
Holston High Point antenna farm and
Rye Patch Knob.
The
Federal Aviation Administration also maintains a navigational beacon at the Holston Mountain summit.
Connection with U.S. Interstate Highway System
Interstate 26 Exit 24 then east to Elizabethton.
Demographics
As of the
census of 2000, there were 13,372 people, 5,454 households, and 3,512 families residing in the city. The
population density was 1,459.3 people per square mile (563.6/km²). There were 5,964 housing units at an average density of 650.9/sq mi (251.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 95.30%
White, 2.47%
African American, 0.16%
Native American, 0.55%
Asian, 0.01%
Pacific Islander, 0.49% from
other races, and 1.02% from two or more races.
Hispanic or
Latino of any race were 1.18% of the population.
There were 5,454 households out of which 26.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.6% were
married couples living together, 14.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.6% were non-families. 32.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.82.
In the city the population was spread out with 20.5% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 24.5% from 25 to 44, 23.1% from 45 to 64, and 21.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 82.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 76.8 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $25,909, and the median income for a family was $33,333. Males had a median income of $26,890 versus $20,190 for females. The
per capita income for the city was $14,578. About 15.2% of families and 19.4% of the population were below the
poverty line, including 29.8% of those under age 18 and 16.1% of those age 65 or over.
History
Native American inhabitants
The area now known as Tennessee was first settled by
Paleo-Indians nearly 11,000 years ago. The names of the cultural groups that inhabited the area between first settlement and the time of European contact are unknown, but several distinct cultural phases have been named by archaeologists, including
Archaic,
Woodland, and
Mississippian whose chiefdoms were the cultural predecessors of the
Muscogee people who inhabited the Tennessee River Valley prior to Cherokee migration into the river's headwaters.
When
Spanish explorers first visited Tennessee, led by
Hernando de Soto in 1539–43, it was inhabited by tribes of
Muscogee and
Yuchi people. Possibly because of European diseases devastating the Native tribes, which would have left a population vacuum, and also from expanding European settlement in the north, the
Cherokee moved south from the area now called Virginia. As European colonists spread into the area, the native populations were forcibly displaced to the south and west, including all Muscogee and Yuchi peoples, the
Chickasaw, and
Choctaw. From 1838 to 1839, nearly 17,000 Cherokees were forced to march from "emigration depots" in Eastern Tennessee, such as
Fort Cass, to
Indian Territory west of Arkansas. This came to be known as the
Trail of Tears, as an estimated 4,000 Cherokees died along the way (Satz, Ronald.
Tennessee's Indian Peoples. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1979. ISBN 0-87049-285-3).
Colonial settlement: "…a desperate Body of Settlers"
In 1759, a young
James Robertson accompanied explorer
Daniel Boone on his third expedition to lands beyond the
Alleghany Mountains. The party discovered the "Old Fields" (lands previously cultivated by generations of
Native Americans) along the
Watauga River valley at present day Elizabethton, in which Robertson planted with
corn while Boone continued on to
Kentucky.
Robertson later returned to North Carolina, and married Charlotte Reeves in 1767. After the
Battle of Alamance in 1771, many North Carolinians refused to take the new oath of allegiance to the Royal Crown and withdrew from the province. Instead of taking their new oath of allegiance, James Robertson led a group of some twelve or thirteen families involved with the
Regulator movement from near where present day
Raleigh, North Carolina now stands. In 1772, Robertson and the pioneers who had settled in Northeast Tennessee (along the Watauga River, the
Doe River, the
Holston River, and the
Nolichucky River met at
Sycamore Shoals to establish an independent regional government known as the
Watauga Association.
However, in 1772, surveyors placed the land officially within the domain of the
Cherokee tribe, who required negotiation of a lease with the settlers. Tragedy struck as the lease was being celebrated, when a Cherokee warrior was murdered by a white man. Robertson's skillful diplomacy made peace with the irate
Native Americans, who threatened to expel the settlers by force if necessary.
Carter County is named in honor of Landon Carter, Chairman of the Court as defined by the articles of the Watauga Petition and
Speaker of the defunct Franklin Senate. Elizabethton is the county seat and is named for Landon's wife, Elizabeth MacLin Carter, as well as Elizabeth McNabb, the wife of David McNabb who, with Landon, were members of a committee appointed by the Tennessee Assembly in 1796 to locate and name the county seat of Carter County.
Landon Carter was the son of early Carter County settler, John Carter. John Carter's circa 1780 home known as the Carter Mansion still serves as a tourist attraction. The oldest frame house in Tennessee, this former frontier plantation home is located on the Broad Street Extension on the eastern side of town above the banks of the Watauga River. A landscape painting of a Virginia plantation that was discovered underneath ancient layers of paint covering the wall surface above a fireplace mantle suggest that John Carter may have possibly been an illegitimate son of the wealthy Virginia plantation owner
Robert "King" Carter and half-brother to Virignia plantation owner
Landon Carter.
American Revolution
Elizabethton (at
Sycamore Shoals) was also the
Fort Watauga site of the
Transylvania Purchase. In March 1775, land speculator and North Carolina judge
Richard Henderson met with more than 1,200
Cherokees at Sycamore Shoals, including Cherokee leaders such as
Attacullaculla,
Oconostota, and
Dragging Canoe. In the
Treaty of Sycamore Shoals (also known as the Treaty of Watauga), Henderson purchased all the land lying between the
Cumberland River, the
Cumberland Mountains, and the
Kentucky River, and situated south of the
Ohio River. The land thus delineated, 20 million acres (81000 km?), encompassed an area half as large as the present state of Kentucky. Henderson's purchase was in violation of North Carolina and Virginia law, as well as the
Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited private purchase of American Indian land. Henderson may have mistakenly believed that a newer British legal opinion had made such land purchases legal.
Before the Sycamore Shoals treaty, Henderson had hired
Daniel Boone, an experienced hunter who had explored Kentucky, to travel to the Cherokee towns and inform them of the upcoming negotiations. Afterwards, Boone was hired to blaze what became known as the
Wilderness Road, which went through the Cumberland Gap and into central Kentucky. Along with a party of about thirty workers, Boone marked a path to the
Kentucky River, where he established Boonesborough (near present-day
Lexington, Kentucky), which was intended to be the capital of Transylvania. Other settlements, notably
Harrodsburg, were also established at this time. Many of these settlers had come to Kentucky on their own initiative, and didn't recognize Transylvania's authority. A Daniel Boone Trail historical marker is found just outside the downtown Elizabethton business district.
Early during the
American Revolutionary War, Fort Watauga at
Sycamore Shoals was the attacked in 1776 by
Dragging Canoe and his warring faction of Cherokee opposed to the
Transylvania Purchase (also referred by settlers as the
Chickamauga), and the surviving frontier fort on the banks of the
Watauga River.
The Overmountain Men fought with the British at the
Battle of Musgrave's Mill in
South Carolina, and later, Fort Watauga served as the
September 26 1780 staging area for the
Overmountain Men who were preparing to trek over the
Blue Ridge Mountains at
Roan Mountain (Roan Highlands) to both engage, and later defeat, the British Army
Loyalist forces and later at the
Battle of Kings Mountain in North Carolina.
Prior to the
American Revolutionary War very little gunpowder had been made in the
United States; and, as a British Colony, most had been imported from
Britain. In October 1777, the British
Parliament banned the importation of gunpowder into America. Five hundred pounds of
black powder was manufactured for the Overmountain Men by Mary Patton and her husband at their Gap Creek powder mill, and the Overmountain Men stored the Patton black powder on that first rainy night in a dry cave known as Shelving Rock that's located nearby the
Roan Mountain State Park at present day
Roan Mountain, Tennessee. During January 1781, the Overmountain Men also fought the British at the
Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina.
U.S. Civil War
On the recommendation of Military Governor of Tennessee
Andrew Johnson, Elizabethton native and U.S. naval officer
Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter was promoted to the
brevet rank of
brigadier general and assigned by
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to engage
cavalry based in Kentucky against Confederate held railroad lines and bridges in Tennessee during the
Civil War.
In early 1861, after receiving a letter from Carter assuring his loyalty to the Union should a civil war break out, Tennessee Governor
Andrew Johnson used his influence in the
United States Department of War for Carter to organize and train
militia within East Tennessee. After leading successful cavalry operations at the
Battle of Mill Springs on
January 19,
1862, Carter accepted a commission as
Brigadier General of volunteers in May and later continued leading operations at the Battle of
Cumberland Gap in June as well as raids against Holston, Carter's Station, and Jonesville in December, in support of General
William S. Rosecrans'
attack on Murfreesboro.
In July 1863, Carter was placed in command of the
XXIII Corps cavalry division and would continue campaigning across Tennessee throughout the year. By 1865, Carter was in
North Carolina and commanding the left wing of the Union forces at the
Battle of Kingston. He was promoted to
Brevet Major General of Volunteers, briefly commanding the XXIII Corps before being mustered out of volunteer service in January 1866.
While Carter was serving in the
Union Army, the
U.S. Navy promoted him to
lieutenant commander in 1863, then to
commander in 1865. A Tennessee Historical Marker located on West Elk Avenue in front of the S.P. Carter Mansion in downtown Elizabethton, Tennessee commemorates his life and naval career.
The Veterans' Monument
obelisk guarded by two short field cannon in downtown Elizabethton was originally dedicated in 1904 to both
Union and
Confederate veterans from Carter County.
Death of a U.S. President
U.S. President Andrew Johnson died from a stroke at his daughter's Lynn Valley home overlooking the
Watauga River on July 31, 1875.
Elizabethton Covered Bridge
Elizabethton Covered Bridge, built in 1882 and located within the Elizabethton downtown business district. Connecting 3rd Street and Hattie Avenue, the bridge is adjacent to a city park and spans the Doe River. The covered bridge, although now closed to motor traffic, is still open for bicycles and pedestrians.
Most of Elizabethton's downtown is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places for its historical and architectural merits. The Elizabethton Historic District contains a variety of properties ranging in age from the late 1700s through the 1930s. However, the Elizabethton Covered Bridge is a focal point and a well-known landmark in the state. In addition to the Covered Bridge, the downtown historical district also contains the 1926 Elk Avenue concrete arch bridge, and another similar concrete arch bridge just a little further downstream locally known as the Broad Street Bridge.
Railroad history
During the early 20th century, Elizabethton became a rail hub, served by three different railroad companies.
Beginning in the 1880s, the
narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (the
ET&WNC, nicknamed "Tweetsie") from
Johnson City passed through Elizabethton before climbing into the
Blue Ridge Mountains, eventually connecting to
Boone, North Carolina in 1916. In 1927, the portion of the railroad from Johnson City to Elizabethton was converted to
standard gauge in order to more efficiently serve the NARC and Bemberg Rayon Plants.
The narrow gauge portion of the ET&WNC ceased operations in 1950 and was subsequently abandoned, however the standard gauge portion of the line from Johnson City to Elizabethton continued to operate until 2003 as the
East Tennessee Railway. Today the railroad's dormant track remains in place, though its future is uncertain.
One of the ET&WNC's narrow gauge
steam locomotives (Engine #12) is still in existence, operating at the
"Tweetsie Railroad" theme park at nearby
Boone, North Carolina.
The
Southern Railway operated a
branch line into Elizabethton until the flood of 1940. It connected with the ET&WNC at a small
railroad yard near the fork of the
Watauga River and the
Doe River.
In the 1910s and 1920s, another small railroad,
The Laurel Fork Railway, operated out of Elizabethton paralleling the ET&WNC and
Doe River to
Hampton, Tennessee. At Hampton the line split off and ran to a
sawmill near present-day
Watauga Lake.
North American Rayon Corp. and American Bemberg Corp.
Beginning during the late 1920s, German and Dutch business investors established two major
rayon manufacturing plants (Bemberg and the North American Rayon Corporation) in Elizabethton along the banks of the Watauga River, producing rayon material for both U.S. domestic and export markets. Even today, you can find examples of the construction or major renovation of Elizabethton buildings located within the downtown area that can be easily dated from the Elizabethton rayon economic boom of the late 1920s.
During
World War II. the U.S. government seized managerial control of these critical rayon plants in Elizabethton. At the later, post-war hiring apex of the Elizabethton rayon industry in 1949, over 6,100 employees were working at both of the rayon mills.
A specialized fiber utilized by
NASA within the
Space Shuttle program was manufactured at the Elizabethton plants during the 1980s, and after many years of a declining U.S. rayon market and increased foreign competition following
GATT and
NAFTA, the remaining rayon mill (owned by the North American Rayon Corporation) closed down during the late 1990s.
The City of Power and the TVA—early hydrogeneration of electricity
Elizabethton was first serviced by
relatively inexpensive hydroelectric power during the early 1910s, leading to the popular "The City of Power" moniker. The Horseshoe section of the Watauga River (found within the
Tennessee Valley Authority reservation behind the TVA Wilbur Dam) is the site of first hydroelectric dam constructed in Tennessee (beginning in 1909), going online with power production and distribution in 1912.
The 1928
Republican Presidential candidate
Herbert C. Hoover made his only southern campaign stop at Elizabethton and delivered his nationally broadcasted October 6 election "stump speech" delivered before 50,000 people gathered at the base of Lynn Mountain in Harmon Field (now at the mini-park area beside the Elizabethton/Carter County Chamber of Commerce building located on U.S. 321).
Ironically, it was the succession of Republican presidents in the White House at the time — first
President Coolidge in 1928, and then later followed by President Hoover later in 1931 — choosing to veto the federal legislation passed by the
U.S. Congress that would have created a water power development agency of the federal government.
It was
Democrat U.S. Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska who sponsored the
Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, water power development legislation which was finally enacted during the administration of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt that created the
Tennessee Valley Authority. Norris was later an important proponent of the
Rural Electrification Act of 1936.
Following the end of World War II, the TVA
Watauga Dam and Reservoir were completed three miles (5 km) upstream of the Wilbur Dam in 1948.
The TVA Wilbur Dam has four hydroelectric generating turbines with a generating capacity of 10,700 kilowatts of electricity.
U.S. Bicentennial - Overmountain Victory Trail
Liberty: The Saga of Sycamore Shoals (formerly known as The Wataugans) is the official outdoor historical drama of the state of
Tennessee. It is presented by the Watauga Historical Association and the Sycamore Shoals Historic Area in Elizabethton every July on the last three Thursday-Friday-Saturday weekends of the month. Employing a mixed cast of volunteer professional and amateur local actors and re-enactors engaged through an open casting call,
Liberty: The Saga of Sycamore Shoals depicts the early history of the area that's now Northeast Tennessee.
Hikers, military reenactors, and scouts have followed within segments of the famous overmountain victory trail, and in 1975 three Elizabethton
boy scouts were among those who completed the first re-enactment of the overmountain march (approximately in one direction) from Elizabethton at
Sycamore Shoals to the
Kings Mountain National Military Park. In 1980, President
Jimmy Carter — recognizing the historical significance of the frontier patriots marching over the
Appalachian mountains to fight the British Army at the
Battle of King's Mountain — signed federal law designating the historical overmountain route as the
Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, the first
National Historic Trail established within the eastern United States.
Famous natives and residents
- William Gannaway Brownlow: newspaper publisher, Tennessee Governor; Radical Republican, U.S. Senator (1805-1877).
- Rear Admiral/Major General Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter - (August 6, 1819-May 26, 1891). Only U.S. military officer to have held the rank of Army General and Navy Admiral. The May 28, 1891 Washington Post obituary for Carter presents a timeline that suggests that Carter may have also been a member of one of the earliest classes of midshipmen (1846) to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy.
- Robert Love Taylor, Tennessee politician (July 31, 1850 - March 31, 1912).
- Alfred A. Taylor, Tennessee politician (August 6, 1848 - November 23, 1931).
- Dayton E. Phillips, U.S. House of Representatives (January 3, 1947 to January 3, 1951), Judge.
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