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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 ...
Tennessee is home to the first nuclear power reactor in the U.S. to begin operation in the 21st century, which is at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Rhea County. [328] Tennessee was also an early leader in hydroelectric power, [329] and today is the third-largest hydroelectric power-producing state east of the Rocky Mountains. [330]
The James Fort c. 1608 as depicted on the map by Pedro de Zúñiga. Jamestown, also Jamestowne, was the first settlement of the Virginia Colony, founded in 1607, and served as the capital of Virginia until 1699, when the seat of government was moved to Williamsburg.
The Territory South of the River Ohio, more commonly known as the Southwest Territory or the old Southwest Territory, was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 26, 1790, until June 1, 1796, when it was admitted to the United States as the State of Tennessee.
Sevier was born in Virginia in 1747. He was named after his father, Valentine 'The immigrant' Sevier, who had taken passage from London to America and settled in Augusta County, Virginia in an area which is part of Rockingham County today. His older brother, John Sevier, became the first governor of the state of Tennessee.
First permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory: 1788: Cincinnati: Ohio: United States 1788: Charleston: West Virginia: United States: Expanded from Fort Lee [59] 1789 Santa Cruz de Nuca: British Columbia: Canada First European settlement in British Columbia; only Spanish settlement in Canada 1790: Hamilton: Bermuda: United ...
In 1779–80, he headed another group of settlers into the Cumberland Valley in Tennessee and founded the settlement Fort Nashborough (present-day Nashville) in the French Lick area. In 1779, Judge Henderson was appointed one of six commissioners to run the line between Virginia and North Carolina into Powell's valley.
March 5 – Tennessee's first case of COVID-19 is confirmed in Williamson County, marking the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Tennessee. 2023 March 27 – A mass shooting occurs at a private Presbyterian Church in America parochial school in Nashville, Tennessee , killing three children, three adults, and the perpetrator.