Ninth in a 12-part monthly series to commemorate Sullivan County’s role in the 250th birthday of the United States of America When the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio was organized in 1790, federal authority needed a place where government could...
Eighth in a 12-part monthly series to commemorate Sullivan County’s role in the 250th birthday of the United States of America When William Blount was appointed governor of the Territory South of the River Ohio in 1790, the task before him was immense. The Revolution...
Seventh in a 12-part monthly series to commemorate Sullivan County’s role in the 250th birthday of the United States of America Victory in the Revolutionary War did not bring immediate clarity to the frontier. In the Holston Valley, the early postwar years exposed a...
Sixth in a 12-part monthly series to commemorate Sullivan County’s role in the 250th birthday of the United States of America By 1780, the Revolutionary War had reached the frontier in force. For the Overmountain settlements, the struggle shifted from simply holding...
Fifth in a 12-part monthly series to commemorate Sullivan County’s role in the 250th birthday of the United States of America Rivers functioned much like an early version of our modern interstate system, especially when they were navigable. Long Island (later King’s...
Fourth in a 12-part monthly series to commemorate Sullivan County’s role in the 250th birthday of the United States of America Even as violence flared in the Holston Valley during the Revolutionary era, settlers made a choice that would shape the region’s long-term...
Third in a 12-part monthly series to commemorate Sullivan County’s role in the 250th birthday of the United States of America In July 1776, independence was declared in Philadelphia. Along the Holston River near Island Flats, it arrived as a crisis. The Battle of...
Second in a 12-part monthly series to commemorate Sullivan County’s role in the 250th birthday of the United States of AmericaAs British colonial interests pushed beyond the Appalachians, travel followed established Indigenous routes such as the Warriors’ Path through...
First in a 12-part monthly series to commemorate Sullivan County’s role in the 250th birthday of the United States of America. Before Sullivan County existed, before Tennessee had a name, there was Long Island of the Holston. Lying along a broad bend of the Holston...