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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.
The 1st district's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives has been held by Republicans since 1881. The district was created in 1805 when the at-large seat was divided into multiple districts. The district's current representative is Republican Diana Harshbarger, who was first elected in 2020 following the retirement of Republican Phil Roe. [5]
Pages in category "Unincorporated communities in Carter County, Tennessee" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Location of Carter County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Carter County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Carter County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
The first public gas utility company in the Western Hemisphere -- and one of the earliest known public utilities anywhere -- was born in a museum on Baltimore's Holliday Street on June 11, 1816.
Sep. 4—For more than 20 years, water utility districts in the area have looked for ways to increase the water supply in Cumberland County. South Cumberland Utility District dug a series of wells ...
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.
His maternal grandfather, Landon Carter (1760–1800), an American Revolutionary War veteran, was the man for whom Carter County was named. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Nathaniel Green Taylor received his education privately before entering Washington College near Jonesborough, Tennessee .