Book/Printed Material Counties of Tennessee,
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Image 1 of Counties of Tennessee,
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 2 of Counties of Tennessee,
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 5 of Counties of Tennessee, COUNTIES of TENNESSEE By AUSTIN P. FOSTER, A.M Assistant State Librarian and Archivist
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 6 of Counties of Tennessee,
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 7 of Counties of Tennessee, COUNTIES OF TENNESSEE f By AUSTIN P. FOSTER, A.M. Assistant State Librarian and Archivist DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, DIVISION OF HISTORY STATE OF TENNESSEE 7 930 P. L HARNED Commissioner, Department of Education
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 8 of Counties of Tennessee, a Copyright, 1923 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, DIVISION OF HISTORY State of Tennessee C1A7G5343 l A 1923 s\\ V
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 9 of Counties of Tennessee, INDEX Page Anderson County Bedford County Benton County Bledsoe County. Blount County. Bradley County. Campbell County Cannon County Carroll County Carter County Cheatham County. Chester County. Claiborne County Clay County Cooke County.…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 10 of Counties of Tennessee,
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 11 of Counties of Tennessee, PREFACE T HIS book is not a history of Tennessee. It is, however, supplementary to the history of the state, for it gives historical and statistical facts, which are of general in¬…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 12 of Counties of Tennessee, COUNTIES OF TENNESSEE P OLITICALLY, Tennessee is divided into three Grand Divisions—East Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and West Tennessee. The counties of East Tennessee are: Ander¬ son, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne,…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 13 of Counties of Tennessee, EAST TENNESSEE ANDERSON COUNTY A NDERSON COUNTY, named in honor of Judge Joseph Anderson,f was created by Act of the General Assem¬ bly, November 6, 1801. It was formed from parts of…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 14 of Counties of Tennessee, 6 Counties of Tennessee enterprising mercantile establishments, several flourishing mills, and other industries. Coal Creek has a population of 1,204. Scholastic population of county, 6,512; high schools, 7; elementary schools, 55. BLEDSOE…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 15 of Counties of Tennessee, Counties of Tennessee 7 Bogles, McCroskeys, McCullochs, Boyds, Cunninghams, Tip- tons, McGaugheys, and McMuarrays. They were greatly harassed by the Indians. The Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions was organized on the…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 16 of Counties of Tennessee, 8 Counties of Tennessee scene of many bloody battles with the Indians in the early pioneer days. In 1819, an agency known as the Cherokee Agency was established on the present site…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 17 of Counties of Tennessee, Counties of Tennessee 9 ed to all kinds of fruits. Cleveland, county seat, is on the Southern Railway, 29 miles northeast of Chattanooga; popu¬ lation, 6,522; well supplied with churches and schools;…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 18 of Counties of Tennessee, 10 Counties of Tennessee Scholastic population of county, 11,005; high schools, 9; ele¬ mentary schools, 80. CARTER COUNTY C ARTER COUNTY was the first county erected by the first General Assembly of…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 19 of Counties of Tennessee, Counties of Tennessee 11 CLAIBORNE COUNTY C LAIBORNE COUNTY was erected on October 29, 1801, and was named for Wm. C. C. Claiborne.f It was formed from Grainger and Hawkins Counties. The…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 20 of Counties of Tennessee, 12 Counties of Tennessee COCKE COUNTY OCKE COUNTY was erected on October 9, 1797, and named in honor of William Cocke .t It was carved out of Jefferson County. The first settlements…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 21 of Counties of Tennessee, Counties of Tennessee 18 and J. W. Dodge, who lived near Crossville, took many prizes for his apples. Statistics of Cumberland County: population, 1920, 10,094. Assessed valuation of taxable property, 1921, $5,232,844.…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 22 of Counties of Tennessee, 14 Counties of Tennessee surface called Clinch Mountain. County is well timbered; soil in valleys very fertile. Corn, oats, wheat, grass, and live stock are the staple products. Fine iron ore deposits…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 23 of Counties of Tennessee, Counties of Tennessee 15 and iron are found in the county. Greeneville, the county seat, has a population of 3,775 and is on the Southern Railway. Greeneville is a large tobacco market…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 24 of Counties of Tennessee, 16 Counties of Tennessee George McFarland, R. M. Hamblen, A. J. Donelson, Alexander Williams, Jonathan Noe, G. W. Carmichael, C. J. Burnett, D. S. Noe, R. P. Sharp, William Felkner, S. M.…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 25 of Counties of Tennessee, 17 Counties of Tennessee dent. By an election in November, 1870, the county seat was transferred from Harrison to Chattanooga. Prof. J. B. Brown, State Superintendent of Public Instruc¬ tion, 1921-1923, in…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 26 of Counties of Tennessee, 18 Counties of Tennessee “Others who belonged to a later period are: Hasten Poe, Asahel Rawlings, James Cozby, John Russell, Joseph Rogers, David Beck, John Brown, John Taylor, Nimrod Moore, Jack- son…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 27 of Counties of Tennessee, Counties of Tennessee 19 Knob, National Cemetery, Confederate Cemetery, Lookout Mountain with its $100,000 cable incline 4,750 feet long, Signal Mountain, and Walden’s Ridge. Statistics of Hamilton County: population, 1920, 115,954. Assessed…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 28 of Counties of Tennessee, 20 Counties of Tennessee HANCOCK COUNTY H ANCOCK COUNTY was erected on January 7, 1844, and was named for John Hancock. It was formed from parts of Hawkins and Claiborne Counties. Because…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 29 of Counties of Tennessee, Counties of Tennessee 21 schools, bank, newspaper, and flourishing business houses. Scholastic population, 3,833; high schools, 1; elementary schools, 49. HAWKINS COUNTY H AWKINS COUNTY was formed from Sullivan County by the…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 30 of Counties of Tennessee, 22 Counties of Tennessee and valleys very fertile. The county is covered with a giowth of fine timber, including hardwoods common to the South. Minerals found are: iron, zinc, lead, barytes, magnesia,…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 31 of Counties of Tennessee, Counties of Tennessee 23 mileage, 22. Drained by the Holston and French Broad Rivers. Surface marked by high ridges and fertile valleys. It has a fine timber growth, including the hardwoods. Iron…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 32 of Counties of Tennessee, 24 Counties of Tennessee 340 square miles. Number of farms, 1,672. Railway mileage, 18. Watauga River drains a part of the county. Surface is mountainous with fertile valleys. Grazing fine for sheep…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 33 of Counties of Tennessee, Counties of Tennessee 25 on behalf of the purchasers of lots was October 3, 1791. But it was not until February, 1792, that much improvement was undertaken, and June 11, 1792, is…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 34 of Counties of Tennessee, 26 Counties of Tennessee to truck farming. All kinds of early vegetables are grown and find a ready market and are shipped north. Knoxville, the county seat, with a population of 77,718,…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 35 of Counties of Tennessee, Counties of Tennessee 27 City, with a population of 4,210, has several manufacturing establishments, including car works, and is a prosperous town. Scholastic population of the county, 5,488; high schools, 4; ele¬…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 36 of Counties of Tennessee, 28 Counties of Tennessee who also achieved renown in Texas, and Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, were natives of McMinn County. Statistics of McMinn County: population, 1920, 25,133. As¬ sessed valuation…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 37 of Counties of Tennessee, Counties of Tennessee 29 county seat, with a population of 728, is situated on the Sequatchie River and the Nashville, Chattanooga St. Louis Railway and has good churches, schools, weekly newspaper and…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 38 of Counties of Tennessee, 30 Counties of Tennessee for erecting the first county buildings was raised by the sale of lots, and the expense in connection with the sale was $49.50, of which $1.50 was for…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 39 of Counties of Tennessee, Counties of Tennessee 31 Henderson and Johnson established in 1832, at Madison- ville, an enterprise for the publication of “Dr. Gunn’s Do¬ mestic Medicine,” which enterprise attained somewhat large proportions for that…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923
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Image 40 of Counties of Tennessee, 32 Counties of Tennessee lishments. Tennessee Military Academy is located at Sweet¬ water. Tellico Plains has a population of 1,220, two banks, two lumber manufacturing plants, one tannic acid plant, roof¬ ing…
- Contributor: Foster, Austin Powers
- Date: 1923