I-40 and I-75 run concurrent for nearly 20 miles (32km) in Knoxville and carry more than 210,000 vehicles per day at their busiest point, the highest traffic volume in Tennessee. [129] The region saw its most rapid growth in the 1970s. District of Columbia Prob/Pretrial Office. Chattanooga quickly developed into a nexus between the mountain communities of Southern Appalachia and the cotton states of the Deep South, being referred to as the Gateway to the Deep South. Historically, Democrats were more competitive in the Chattanooga-based 3rd district, but recent trends have made it almost as staunchly Republican as the 1st and 2nd districts. [82], In the 1820s, the Cherokees established a government modeled on the U.S. Constitution, and located their capitol at New Echota in northern Georgia. [172] The stone occurs in belts of Ordovician-period rocks known as the Holston Formation,[172] Tennessee marble achieved such popularity in the late-19th century that Knoxville, the stone's primary finishing and distribution center, became known as "The Marble City."[173]. Each district operates separately. [118][119] On some occasions, land that TVA had acquired through eminent domain that was expected to be inundated was not, and was sold to private developers for the construction of planned communities such as Tellico Village in Loudon County. [94] In 1862, Lincoln appointed Johnson, a War Democrat, as military governor of Tennessee.[95]. In anticipation of forced removal of the Cherokees, white settlers began moving into Cherokee lands in southeast Tennessee in the 1820s and 1830s. Find Best Western Hotels & Resorts nearby Sponsored. 19, 3334 , First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Present-day Descendants by The East Tennessee Historical Society, 2000 pg. . This massive wave essentially transplanted the population of English-descended small-holders from Virginia's Middle Peninsula to East Tennessee.[77][78]. East Tennessee is a region of Tennessee that covers roughly the eastern third of the state, generally locations east of the edge of the Cumberland Plateau. The lowest point in East Tennessee, at an elevation of approximately 600 feet (180m), is found where the Tennessee River enters Alabama in Marion County. [76], A larger group of settlers, entirely of English descent, arrived from Virginia's Middle Peninsula. The detailed map shows the US state of Tennessee with boundaries, the location of the state capital Nashville, major cities and populated places, rivers and lakes, interstate highways, principal highways, railroads and airports. Tennessee ZIP code map and Tennessee ZIP code list. [67] The next year, the Chickamauga, aligned with British loyalists, attacked Fort Watauga at Sycamore Shoals. Early in the war, Unionist delegates unsuccessfully attempted to split East Tennessee into a separate state that would remain as part of the Union. [44] The Cherokee established a series of towns concentrated in the Little Tennessee and Hiwassee valleys that became known as the Overhill towns, since traders from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia had to cross over the mountains to reach them. Advertisement. Appalachian music has evolved from a blend of English and Scottish ballads, Irish and Scottish fiddle tunes, African-American blues, and religious music. [33] In the 2010 census, every county in East Tennessee except for Knox and Hamilton, the two most populous counties, had a population that was greater than 90% White. [159] East Tennessee is also a top location where boats are manufactured, with companies such as Sea Ray, MasterCraft, and Malibu Boats, operating facilities in the region. East Tennessee consists of 33 counties, 30 located within the Eastern Time Zone and three counties in the Central Time Zone, namely Bledsoe, Cumberland, and Marion. Suggestions should be displayed as you type. [63] The following year, the settlers petitioned the Colony of Virginia to annex the Washington District to provide protection from Native American attacks, which was denied. In 1916 and 1917, British folklorist Cecil Sharp visited Flag Pond, Sevierville, Harrogate, and other rural areas in the region where he transcribed dozens of examples of "Old World" ballads that had been passed down generation to generation from the region's early English settlers. First recorded and introduced on the television series Disneyland in 1954, it has been covered by a number of artists, most notably Tennessee Ernie Ford. In 1838 and 1839, U.S. troops forcibly removed nearly 17,000 Cherokees and about 2,000 Black people the Cherokees enslaved from their homes in southeastern Tennessee to Indian Territory. [97] Confederate troops under Braxton Bragg attempted to besiege the Union troops into surrendering, but two months later, reinforcements from the Army of the Tennessee under the command of Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Joseph Hooker, and George Henry Thomas arrived. The fair was one of the most successful, attracting more than eleven million visitors during its six-month run, and is the most recent world's fair to have been held in the United States. 220 West Depot Street, Suite 200. Map of East Tennessee This map shows cities, towns, counties, railroads, interstate highways, U.S. highways, state highways, rivers, lakes, airports, national parks, state parks, trails, rest areas, welcome centers, scenic byways and points of interest in East Tennessee. The region also includes the Cleveland and Morristown metropolitan areas, each of which contain more than 100,000 residents. Two were drawn by Confederate and Union soldiers who were at Gettysburg and Spring Hill, respectively, and an 1862 map of West Tennessee by a Union cartographer, L. D. Radford. Advertisement. For this reason, Whig support ran high in East Tennessee in the years leading up to the war, especially in Knox and surrounding counties. Sequatchie County has also been defined as part of East Tennessee in the past, and Marion County has been included in Middle Tennessee. Volkswagen operates an assembly plant in Chattanooga, and several automotive parts manufacturers, including Denso, operate plants in East Tennessee. This courthouse meets accessibility requirements for those with disabilities. Go. After several unsuccessful attempts at statehood, the State of Franklin rejoined North Carolina in 1788. Several public community colleges and vocational/technical schools also are located in the region, such as Northeast State Community College in Blountville, Walters State Community College in Morristown, Pellissippi State Community College near Knoxville, Chattanooga State Community College, and Cleveland State Community College. The TVA would become the nation's largest public utility provider. [114], TVA's construction of hydroelectric dams in the East Tennessee region would receive criticism with for what some have perceived as excessive use of its authority of eminent domain and an unwillingness to compromise with landowners. [115] In the region, several projects inundated historic Native American sites and American Revolution-era towns. [112], In the 1920s, East Tennessee surpassed Middle Tennessee as the state's most populous Grand Division, primarily as a result of the larger African American population in that region fleeing to Northern industrial cities as part of the Great Migration. The state's 1st and 2nd congressional districts, anchored in the Tri-Cities and Knoxville respectively, are among the few ancestrally Republican regions in the South. Food. Knoxville, with about 190,000 residents, is the state's third largest city, and contains the state's third largest metropolitan area, with about 1 million residents. [137] The accident would prompt the rapid construction of additional four-lane arterial highways in the East Tennessee region throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, as well as place a focus on the completion of Interstates 40, 75, and 81, which occurred in the mid-1970s. [117] Residents who refused to sell to the TVA were often forced by court orders and lawsuits. Standing Orders. During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a series of land cessions were negotiated with the Cherokees as settlers pushed south of the Washington District. SO-22-13. Most new industry in Tennessee was constructed in East Tennessee during this time, and Chattanooga became one of the first industrialized cities in the South. [4], Union County would prove influential to later developments in country music with musicians Roy Acuff, Chet Atkins, and Carl Smith who were born in the county assisted with the international breakthrough of the genre, and the development of the Nashville sound and rockabilly.[145]. United States Bankruptcy Court Historic U.S. [138] On December 11, 1990, a 99-vehicle collision occurred in dense fog on Interstate 75 near Calhoun, killing 12 and injuring 42, and was reportedly the largest motor vehicle accident in U.S. history at the time, in terms of the number of vehicles. [98] Under the command of Hooker, the Union troops defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Lookout Mountain on November 24, and the following day Grant and Thomas completely ran the Confederates out of the city at the Battle of Missionary Ridge. Along with Western North Carolina, North Georgia, Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Virginia, West Virginia, Western Maryland, and Southwestern Pennsylvania, East Tennessee has been included in every major definition of the Appalachian region since the early 20th century. Cumberland, Morgan, and Scott are grouped with East Tennessee, whereas plateau counties west of this divide, such as Fentress, Van Buren, and Grundy, are considered part of Middle Tennessee. In the early 1840s, then-state senator Andrew Johnson actually introduced a bill in the state legislature that would have created a separate state in East Tennessee.[200]. Its strong resemblance to true marble when polished has made it a popular construction material found in several structures and monuments around the United States. Phone: 865-545-4001. [88], Over a period of two decades, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), created in 1933 at the height of the Great Depression, drastically altered the economic, cultural, and physical landscape of East Tennessee. District Map. In 1956, judge Robert Love Taylor ordered nearby Clinton High School to be integrated, and a crisis developed when pro-segregationists threatened violence, prompting then-governor Frank G. Clement to send in Tennessee National Guard troops to assist with the integration process. These were large immigrant family groups who came from the Welsh towns of Llandeilo, Blaengweche, Llandyfan, Derwydd, Glanaman, Garnant, Upper Brynamman, Lower Brynamman, Rhosamman, Cwmllynfell, Tairgwaith, Gwain-Cae-Gurwen, Gwnfe, Twnllanan, Llanddeusant, Ystradfellte, Llandovery, and Laugharne. Georgia Middle Prob/Pretrial Office. Quakers, who had migrated to the region from Pennsylvania in the 1790s, formed the Manumission Society of Tennessee in 1814. Notable supporters included Presbyterian clergyman Samuel Doak, Tusculum College cofounder Hezekiah Balch, and Maryville College president Isaac Anderson. [14] The "Tennessee Divide" runs along the western part of the plateau, and separates the watersheds of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Both the Cumberland Plateau and Cumberland Mountains are part of the larger Appalachian Plateau. [199] They tended to reject the policies of the Southern Democrats, who were deemed "aristocratic" (Andrew Jackson's popularity in the Chattanooga area which he helped open to European-American settlement created a stronger Democratic base in southeastern Tennessee, however). Link to Map Phone: (423) 752-5153 Facsimile: (423) 752-5161. Geographically and socioculturally distinct, it comprises approximately the eastern third of the U.S. state of Tennessee. Coffee. [100] A few days after the Chattanooga Campaign concluded, Confederate General James Longstreet launched the Knoxville campaign in an effort to take control of the city. After killing its trainer in a circus performance in Kingsport, the elephant would be transported to Erwin in nearby Unicoi County, and hung in front of a crowd of roughly 2,500 residents. Other cities in East Tennessee such as Knoxville, Kingsport, Cleveland, Maryville, and Morristown were among some of the first cities in Tennessee to experience the effects of the Industrial revolution in the United States, and most manufacturing facilities constructed in the state in the latter 19th century located in East Tennessee. Florida Northern Prob/Pretrial Services. [171], Tennessee marble, a rare crystalline form of limestone, is found only in several deposits in the East Tennessee region in the entire world.