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The Battle of Blackstock's Farm, a military engagement of the American Revolutionary War, took place in what today is Union County, South Carolina, a few miles from Cross Anchor, on November 20, 1780. The battle marked the first time during the war that an American militia had defeated British regulars. [5]
Elizabethton (/ ə ˈ l ɪ z ə b ɛ θ t ə n / [7]) is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. [8] Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government (known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772) located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original Thirteen Colonies.
Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site, known also as Tipton-Haynes House, is a Tennessee State Historic Site located at 2620 South Roan Street in Johnson City, Tennessee.It includes a house originally built in 1784 by Colonel John Tipton, and 10 other buildings, including a smokehouse, pigsty, loom house, still house, springhouse, log barn and corncrib.
Pages in category "Plantations in Tennessee" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... William Washington Seay House; W. Wheatlands (Sevierville ...
The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail (OVHT) is part of the U.S. National Trails System, and N.C. State Trail System. [1] It recognizes the Revolutionary War Overmountain Men, Patriots from what is now East Tennessee who crossed the Unaka Mountains and then fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
October 18 – Sullivan County is created from Washington County, making it the second-oldest county in what is now Tennessee. 1780 October 7 – Overmountain Men from Washington and Sullivan Counties win the pivotal Battle of Kings Mountain near Kings Mountain, North Carolina, after a march over the mountains.
Woodworth, Stephen E. Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns (1998) * Temple, Oliver P. East Tennessee and the civil war (1899) 588pp online edition excerpt and text search; Vaughan, Virginia C. Tennessee County History Series: Weakley County (1983, Memphis State University Press)
Chandler's son, John Chandler (1786–1875), inherited Wheatlands in 1819, and under his direction the plantation grew to become one of Sevier County's largest farms, covering 3,700 acres (1,500 ha) by 1850. [3] Chandler's freed slaves inherited part of Wheatlands in 1875, and formed the Chandler Gap community in the hills south of the plantation.