{"id":33,"date":"2011-10-25T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea2\/?p=33"},"modified":"2011-10-25T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:38:07","slug":"chronology-of-rhea-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/chronology-of-rhea-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronology of Rhea County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\n<table id=\"tablepress-1\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-1\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Date<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Event<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1783<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">First settlers claim North Carolina land grants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1796<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Tennessee becomes the 16th state.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1801<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Roane County, which contained most of Rhea is created.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1805<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Tellico Treaty - Cherokee Nation surrenders claims to additional land.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1806<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Return J. Meigs lays out the site of the Hiwassee Garrison and Indian Agency.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1807<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Rhea County established.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1808<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">John McClellan surveys land for 72 individuals. 112 are listed on tax list.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1811<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Land is laid off for the town of Washington. Courthouse and jail planned.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1812<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">WAR OF 1812<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1814<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Stocks and pillory built.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1830<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">New Courthouse is built.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1836<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Meigs County created from Rhea.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1847<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Flood devastates town of Washington.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1861<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">CIVIL WAR. Rhea County forms home guard. Tennessee secedes from the Union, and joins the Confederate States of America.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-16\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1866<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Tennessee re-admitted to the Union. Many Rhea citizens relocate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-17\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1899<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">County seat moved to Dayton.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-1 from cache --><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}