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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.
New Providence Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Surgoinsville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with Presbyterian Church (USA). [2]The New Providence congregation was formed in 1780 at the home of William Armstrong II in a settlement in Carter's Valley whose residents had come from Virginia, where they had belonged to another congregation called New Providence.
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 ...
Watauga Dam is a hydroelectric and flood control dam on the Watauga River in Carter County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.It is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the 1940s as part of efforts to control flooding in the Tennessee River watershed.
John Carter and Robert Lucas purchased the recently acquired Carter's Valley from the Richard Henderson Co. [16] [17] Others say the Carter property was awarded as payment for damages resulting from the Cherokee attack and burning of his Carter's valley store [14] The result of this series of transactions transferred most of upper east ...
Carter Mansion ca. 1775-1780, oldest frame house in Tennessee In 1772, the Watauga settlers, hoping to keep control of the land they had been developing, sent James Robertson and James Bean to Chota , where they negotiated a 10-year lease for the lands in the Watauga Valley.
Valley Forge is an unincorporated community in Carter County, Tennessee. [1] Located along US Route 19E/321 and SR-67, ...
Wilbur Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Watauga River in Carter County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. [1] It is one of two dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The dam impounds Wilbur Lake, which extends for about 3 miles (4.8 km) up the Watauga to the base of Watauga Dam. [2]