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Elizabethton (/ ə ˈ l ɪ z ə b ɛ θ t ə n / [7]) is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. [8] Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government (known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772) located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original Thirteen Colonies.
Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park is a state park located in Elizabethton, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.The park consists of 70 acres (28.3 ha) situated along the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River, a National Historic Landmark where a series of events critical to the establishment of the states of Tennessee and Kentucky, and the settlement of the Trans-Appalachian frontier in general ...
Elizabethton Historic District (ID73001754 [1]) Designated CP. March 14, 1973. The Elizabethton Covered Bridge is a 134-foot (41 m) covered bridge over the Doe River in Elizabethton, the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee. The Elizabethton Covered Bridge was constructed in 1882 and connects 3rd Street and Hattie Avenue.
Carter County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,356. [2] Its county seat is Elizabethton. [3] The county is named in honor of Landon Carter (1760–1800), an early settler active in the "Lost State of Franklin" 1784-1788 secession from the State of North Carolina.
Elizabethton: 11: U.S. Post Office: U.S. Post Office: August 9, 1983 : 201-203 N. Sycamore St. Elizabethton: Early-1930s beaux-arts building designed by James Wetmore; now home to the Elizabethton-Carter County Public Library. 12
The OVHT follows the route from Abingdon, Virginia at the Abingdon Muster Grounds, [2] fording the Watauga River at Sycamore Shoals through present day Elizabethton, Tennessee, crossing the Doe River twice near both Hampton, Tennessee and Roan Mountain, Tennessee, and ascending over the steep Unaka Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, on through South Carolina to the site of the Battle ...
Fort Watauga. Coordinates: 36.34413°N 82.25421°W. The reconstructed Fort Watauga at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park. Fort Watauga, also known as Fort Caswell, was a fortification located in the Watauga River 's Sycamore Shoals near modern-day Elizabethton, Tennessee. It was constructed from 1775 to 1776 by the Watauga Association, a semi ...
The Cumberland Compact was signed at a Longhunter and native American trading post and camp near the French Lick[1] aka the "Big Salt Springs" on the Cumberland River on May 13, 1780, by 256 settlers led by James Robertson and John Donelson, where the group settled and built Fort Nashborough, which would later become Nashville, Tennessee.