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Chattanooga Times Free Press [2] Chattanooga: 1869 [3] Daily: Began as Times; merged with Free Press in 1999 to form Times Free Press: Chester County Independent: Henderson Weekly Citizen Tribune: Morristown: 1966 [4] Daily: Cleveland Daily Banner: Cleveland: 1854 [5] Daily: Commercial Appeal, The [3] Memphis [2] 1840 [5] Daily: Gannett Company ...
Polk County was created by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly on November 23, 1839. The location for the county seat of Benton was chosen by an election held on February 4, 1840. [1] Copper was discovered in Ducktown in 1843. By the 1850s, a large mining operation was underway in southeastern Polk County; the area became known as the ...
Benton Station is an unincorporated community in Polk County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. [1] The community is two miles east from the county seat of Benton on Benton Station Road. The community of Benton which is different than Benton Station was named for Thomas Hart Benton, a Missouri politician. [2]
Benton was founded in 1840 as a county seat for Polk County, which had been established the previous year. The town, originally a trading post known as McKamy's stock stand, was named in honor of politician and US Senator from Missouri, Thomas Hart Benton. [8] Nancy Ward, a Cherokee known as Nanyehi, was a Beloved Woman, a leader among her ...
The Oak Ridger was established in 1949 by Alfred and Julia Hill. [2] It published its first edition on January 20 of that year. The first publisher was Don J. McKay. [1] The paper was owned for many years by the Hill family. [2]
The Advertiser News was a weekly newspaper in Spring Hill, Tennessee. It was founded in 2003 and closed sometime in 2020. It was founded in 2003 and closed sometime in 2020. It is owned and published by GateHouse Media Inc. at the time of its closing.
Ducktown (Cherokee: ᎦᏬᏅᏱ, romanized: Gawonvyi) is a city in Polk County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 461 at the 2020 census and 475 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Cleveland Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Reliance is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Tennessee, United States. Reliance is located on the Hiwassee River at the junction of Tennessee State Route 30 and Tennessee State Route 315, 8.8 miles (14.2 km) east of Benton. [2] Reliance had a post office until it closed on May 21, 2011; it still has its own ZIP code, 37369.