Location Latitude Longitude GPS Latitude Decimal GPS Longitude Decimal Backwoods Post Office (historical) Unknown Unknown 0 0 Braemar Post Office (historical) Unknown Unknown 0 0 Burbank Post Office (historical) Unknown Unknown 0 0 Cardens Bluff Post Office (historical) Unknown Unknown … Continue reading →
Location Latitude Longitude GPS Latitude Decimal GPS Longitude Decimal Bear Wallow Mine 362504N 0820651W 36.4178892 -82.114294 Blevins Mine 362814N 0820201W 36.4706692 -82.0337351 Blue Spring Mine 362125N 0820622W 36.3570579 -82.1062374 Bowers Branch Prospect 362140N 0820547W 36.361225 -82.0965147 Bowers Mine 362100N 0820718W … Continue reading →
Location Latitude Longitude GPS Latitude Decimal GPS Longitude Decimal Backwoods 361034N 0820900W 36.1762265 -82.1501265 Bear Stand 361643N 0820517W 36.2787277 -82.0881798 Bemberg 362010N 0821429W 36.3362184 -82.2415227 Big Spring 361901N 0821433W 36.317052 -82.2426338 Biltmore 362220N 0821332W 36.3723294 -82.2256886 Bitter End 361242N 0820224W … Continue reading →
Ripshin is a remote, extremely beautiful area in Carter County. Private ownership of the land precludes trespassing, but public passage is allowed on the road through the area, passing by Roaring Creek. Ripshin Lake is also privately owned. The federally … Continue reading →
The City of Elizabethton has an archivist on staff. Details on this page are taken from the Tennessee State Library & Archives list of microfilm holdings for Carter County. Click here to view and download the PDF-formatted document. FamilySearch images … Continue reading →
Roberta Tuller has created a tremendous resource for individuals seeking information about pre-Statehood residents in the Wataugah Settlement and surrounding area. She has a list of settlers’ names with links to documents connected to them. She has transcribed numerous original … Continue reading →
The Elizabethton Star newspaper publishes full-color special issues related to Carter County communities, lifestyle, and history. They are viewable on-line, but not downloadable. These publications are of special interest to family and local historians: Carter County Heritage Click here to … Continue reading →
Sinking Creek Baptist Church is the oldest church in Tennessee. It was organized about 1772 in Washington County (now Carter County) and is the oldest church in Tennessee still in existence at its original location.
Continue reading →Pronounced you-NAY-kuh, the name comes from the Cherokee word unega, which means “white.” Cherokee residents called the Unaka Mountain range that forms part of the Tennessee-North Carolina border the White Mountains. This name likely reflected the blanketing of color seen … Continue reading →
The Winner Community is in Northeast Carter County, on TN Highway 91. Unaka Elementary and Unaka High Schools are located near Winner. The following history is from the Unaka Elementary School’s Web site: Prior to 1915, there was not … Continue reading →
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