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The first permanent settlement in Tennessee, Bean Station, was established in 1776, but was explored by pioneers Daniel Boone and William Bean one year prior on a longhunting excursion. [45] The duo first observed Bean Station after crossing the gap at Clinch Mountain along a southern expansion of the Wilderness Road from the Cumberland Gap ...
The Knoxville Gazette, first Tennessee newspaper, begun. 1794 Blount College, a predecessor of the University of Tennessee, founded in Knoxville, first American nondenominational institution of higher learning. 1796 February 6 - Tennessee adopts a constitution. June 1 - Tennessee becomes the 16th of the United States.
Reconstruction of Fort Loudoun, the first British settlement in Tennessee In the 1750s and 1760s, longhunters from Virginia explored much of East and Middle Tennessee. [ 43 ] Settlers from the Colony of South Carolina built Fort Loudoun on the Little Tennessee River in 1756, the first British settlement in what is now Tennessee and the ...
being the reported first permanent European-American settler, and founding the first permanent European-American settlement of Tennessee [1] Title: Commissioner, Watauga Association [2] Term: 1772-April 1775: Predecessor: Office established: Successor: Office dissolved: Spouse
First settled in 1625 as Merrymount, resettled and incorporated in 1640. [27] ... Tennessee: United States: First capital of the State of Franklin, in 1784 1779:
DeMonbreun settled in Nashville permanently in 1788, and ran a tavern and mercantile business. ... On April 17, 2015 First Tennessee Park opened in the Germantown ...
Tennessee State Parks – Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park; Political History of Tennessee Began in 1772 with Adoption of "Written Articles of Association" — article at TNGenWeb by Dallas Bogan; Chapter II, Watauga—Its Settlement and Government — in The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century by J. G. M. Ramsey, 1853.
The location of the state of Tennessee in the United States of America. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Tennessee: Tennessee – U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th most extensive and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee was admitted to the ...