10 Facts About Sevierville Tennessee

Sevierville Tennessee was joined the following year by Samuel Newell, who established Newell's Station along Boyd's Creek, and Joshua Gist, who settled near the creek's mouth.

Sevierville Tennessee was joined shortly thereafter by Spencer Clack and James McMahan, and a community known as "Forks of the Little Pigeon" developed around them.

Notable late arrival in Sevierville was Dr Robert H Hodsden, who was an attending physician for the Trail of Tears.

In 1856, a fire swept through Sevierville Tennessee, burning a recently constructed courthouse, 41 houses, and several shops in the downtown area.

In late 1861, a pro-secession speech delivered by Henry Foote sparked an angry response in Sevierville Tennessee and was followed by a series of explosive anti-secession speeches.

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Sevierville Tennessee, situated at a major crossroads south of Knoxville, suffered consistent harassment, looting, and confiscation of property by both Union and Confederate forces moving through the town in 1863 and 1864.

Sevierville Tennessee recovered quickly from the war, with a number of new houses and businesses being built in the 1870s.

In 1896, the Whitecaps' murder of a young Sevierville couple led to widespread outrage, and in 1898, the Tennessee State Legislature banned "extra-legal conspiracies" and vigilante groups.

Sevierville Tennessee is centered on the stretch of land between these two junctions of the East and Middle Fork and the West Fork, known traditionally as Forks-of-the-Pigeon or Forks-of-the-River.

Sevierville Tennessee is served by the Sevier County public school system.