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Knoxville became the first capital of the State of Tennessee in 1796, and grew steadily during the early 19th century as a way station for westward-bound migrants and as a commercial center for nearby mountain communities. [ 1 ] The arrival of the railroad in the 1850s led to a boom in the city's population and commercial activity.
47-40000. GNIS feature ID. 1648562 [12] Website. www.knoxvilletn.gov. Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States. [15] As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, [16] making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's third-most-populous city ...
1786 – White's Fort built. [ 1] 1791. Knoxville founded as the capital of the Southwest Territory, named for Henry Knox [ 2] Knoxville Gazette newspaper begins publication. [ 3] 1792 – Blount Mansion built. [ 4] 1793 – First Presbyterian Church established.
The Connecticut Colony, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation of settlers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony led by Thomas Hooker .
The federal settlement bill included a $900,000 appropriation, the appraisal value of the 800 acres, which the Pequot would use to buy the land from the landowner defendants. [22] The legislation also provided that the landowners would not have to pay capital gains tax as long as they reinvested the money in real estate. [23]
The History of Connecticut: From the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution. Durrie and Peck., vol. 1 to 1740s; Janick, Herbert F. A diverse people: Connecticut, 1914 to the present (Series in Connecticut history) (1975) 124pp; Jones, Mary Jeanne Anderson. Congregational Commonwealth: Connecticut, 1636-1662 1968
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (or The University of Tennessee; UT; UT Knoxville; or colloquially UTK or Tennessee) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system, with ten undergraduate ...
Dec. 23—In the last week or so, cities and towns, such as Groton, Norwich and Waterford, in southeastern Connecticut have moved to join a $26 billion national opioid settlement agreement to ...