15 Facts About Elizabethton Tennessee

Elizabethton Tennessee is the historical site of the first independent American government located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original Thirteen Colonies.

Elizabethton Tennessee is connected to larger commercial, shuttle, and cargo flights out of Tri-Cities Regional Airport northwest of Johnson City.

The Elizabethton Tennessee Covered Bridge is an important focal point and a well-known landmark in the state.

City of Elizabethton Tennessee was at one time promoted as "The City of Power", as the town is located just southeast of the Wilbur Dam hydrogeneration site spanning the Watauga River.

Watauga River downstream of the western side of Elizabethton has one of the only two sections of trophy trout streams in Tennessee.

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In 1772, Robertson and the pioneers who had settled in Northeast Elizabethton Tennessee met at Sycamore Shoals to establish an independent regional government known as the Watauga Association.

John Sevier, the future first governor of the State of Elizabethton Tennessee, first visited the Holston settlement and surrounding areas in present-day northeast Elizabethton Tennessee during 1771, bringing items to trade with settlers from his merchandising business in Middletown, Virginia.

All of present-day Elizabethton Tennessee was once recognized as one single North Carolina county: Washington County, North Carolina.

Elizabethton Tennessee was the Fort Watauga site of the Transylvania Purchase.

John Tipton would later help to lead the effort of toward having Elizabethton Tennessee being admitted as the sixteenth state into the United States of America during 1796.

Elizabethton Tennessee was promoted to Brevet Major General of Volunteers, briefly commanding the XXIII Corps before being mustered out of volunteer service in January 1866.

Elizabethton Tennessee was first served by relatively inexpensive hydroelectric power during the early 1910s, leading to the popular "The City of Power" moniker.

The Horseshoe section of the Watauga River is the site of the first hydroelectric dam constructed in Elizabethton Tennessee, going online with power production and distribution in 1912.

Section 1 between Johnson City and Sycamore Shoals State Park in Elizabethton Tennessee was completed in the summer of 2014 and opened on August 30 with the inaugural Tweetsie Trail Trek.

Section II of the trail will begin at Sycamore Shoals State Park, proceed to downtown Elizabethton Tennessee and continue to the end of the line, near the Betsytowne Shopping Center.