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Philadelphia, Tennessee. Location of Philadelphia in Loudon County, Tennessee. / 35.67917°N 84.40000°W / 35.67917; -84.40000. Philadelphia is a city in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States. Its population was 656 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Tennessee is one of the 50 states of the United States. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. It was admitted to the Union on June 1, 1796, as the 16th state. Tennessee earned the nickname "The Volunteer State" during the War of 1812, when many Tennesseans helped with the war ...
The city of Philadelphia was founded and incorporated in 1682 by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Before then, the area was inhabited by the Lenape people. Philadelphia quickly grew into an important colonial city and during the American Revolution was the site of the First ...
There are 95 counties in the U.S. State of Tennessee. As of 2023, Shelby County was both Tennessee's most populous county, with 910,042 residents, and the largest county in area, covering an area of 755 sq mi (1,955 km 2 ). The least populous county was Pickett County (5,128) and the smallest in area was Trousdale County, covering 114 sq mi ...
The three Grand Divisions, East, Middle, and West Tennessee, are formally defined in state law at Tennessee Code Annotated Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 2 ("Grand Divisions and State Capital") [ 3] as the "eastern, middle, and western" Grand Divisions of the state. The law lists the counties in each region. The boundary between East Tennessee and ...
July 4: United States Declaration of Independence signed in the Pennsylvania State House. December 12: threat of British occupation of Philadelphia prompts Congress to move to Baltimore at Henry Fite House for two months. 1777. March 5: Congress returns to Philadelphia.
This article pertains to the history of Nashville, the state capital of Tennessee. What is now Nashville was the center of civilization for the Mississippian culture around 1300. [ 1] In 1779, Fort Nashborough was built here in 1779 by pioneers from North Carolina. In 1784 it was incorporated as a town by the North Carolina legislature.
The Knoxville Gazette, first Tennessee newspaper, begun. 1794 Blount College, a predecessor of the University of Tennessee, founded in Knoxville, first American nondenominational institution of higher learning. 1796 February 6 - Tennessee adopts a constitution. June 1 - Tennessee becomes the 16th of the United States.