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The Mountain Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was an old soldiers' home opened in 1904 in Mountain Home, Johnson City, Tennessee.Its site has since been taken over by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and is home to the Mountain Home National Cemetery and the James H. Quillen VA Center.
Mountain Home National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Mountain Home, within Johnson City in Washington County, Tennessee. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 99.7 acres (40.3 ha), and as of 2018, had over 17,000 interments.
The Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol Combined Statistical Area (CSA) is made up of five counties in Eastern Tennessee as well as two counties and an independent city in Southwestern Virginia. The statistical area includes two metropolitan areas. As of the 2020 Census, the CSA had a population of 514,899. [4]
The East Tennessee State Normal School was authorized in 1911 and the new college campus directly across from the National Soldiers Home. [citation needed] Johnson City began growing rapidly and became the fifth-largest city in Tennessee by 1930. [18] Together with neighboring Bristol, Johnson City was a hotbed for old-time music.
J&D's Down Home Enterprises, also known as J&D's Foods, was an American company founded in 2007 by entrepreneurs Justin Esch and Dave Lefkow to produce vegetarian based, bacon-related products such as Bacon Salt and Baconnaise. In November 2017, the company was purchased by L and L Specialty Foods, based in Altura, Minnesota.
Hollis Johnson's, the cozy, 1950s-style diner in back of the Westwood Drug Store, hosted Jerry West, John Wooden and a collection of UCLA stars.
Mountain Home, zip code 37684, is a separate postal zone consisting of the grounds of the James H. Quillen VA hospital and Mountain Home National Cemetery, which also includes classrooms and administrative buildings of the East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine. It is entirely contained inside the city of Johnson ...
In terms of average elevation, Johnson County is one of the highest counties (if not the highest) in Tennessee. The county is home to the two highest communities in the state: Trade, at 3,133 feet (955 m), and Shady Valley, at 2,785 feet (849 m). Mountain City is the highest incorporated city in Tennessee, at 2,418 feet (737 m).