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  2. Tellico Village, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Tellico Village was created along the shores of Tellico Lake, which was formed due to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) damming the Little Tennessee River at its confluence with the Tennessee River. Tellico Dam was completed in November 1979 after a long battle, which involved the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and a fish called the snail ...

  3. Tellico Blockhouse - Wikipedia

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    The Tellico Blockhouse was an early American outpost located along the Little Tennessee River in what developed as Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee.Completed in 1794, the blockhouse was a US military outpost that operated until 1807; the garrison was intended to keep peace between the nearby Overhill Cherokee towns and encroaching early Euro-American pioneers in the area in the wake of the ...

  4. Citico (Cherokee town) - Wikipedia

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    Tellico Lake covers the lower 33 miles (53 km) of the Little Tennessee River, which flows down from the mountains to the south and traverses parts of Blount, Monroe, and Loudon counties before emptying into the Tennessee River near Lenoir City. The Citico site was situated along the southwest bank of the river immediately below the river's ...

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Knox County ...

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    Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee. (East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976). Folmsbee, Stanley J. and Lucile Deaderick. The Founding of Knoxville. (East Tennessee Historical Society, 1941.) History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together With an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of From Twenty-Five ...

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Monroe ...

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    Chota and Tanasi Cherokee Village Sites: Chota and Tanasi Cherokee Village Sites: August 30, 1973 : Address Restricted: Vonore: Archaeological sites for 18th-century Cherokee villages of Chota and Tanasi; now submerged under Tellico Lake, though both sites memorialized with monuments along the shoreline 4: Citico Site: Citico Site: November 2, 1978

  7. Great Tellico - Wikipedia

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    Great Tellico, as shown on John Mitchell's 1755 map of North America. Great Tellico was a Cherokee town at the site of present-day Tellico Plains, Tennessee, where the Tellico River emerges from the Appalachian Mountains. Great Tellico was one of the largest Cherokee towns in the region, and had a sister town nearby named Chatuga (Syllabary ...

  8. Loudon County, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Loudon County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is located in the central part of East Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 54,886. [2] Its county seat is Loudon. [3] Loudon County is included in the Knoxville, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area.

  9. History of Knoxville, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    The History of Knoxville, Tennessee, began with the establishment of James White's Fort on the Trans-Appalachian frontier in 1786. [1] The fort was chosen as the capital of the Southwest Territory in 1790, and the city, named for Secretary of War Henry Knox, was platted the following year. [1]