For years, this site’s Webmistress has wished for a map of the Hawkins County Civil Districts in 1836, overlaid on a current map, for her own research. She is immeasurably grateful for the incalculable efforts of Jim Jackson for his … Continue reading →
Populated Places that appear on topographic maps in the United States are listed in an online database maintained by the federal government’s United States Geological Survey and the U. S. Board on Geographic Names. This entity is usually referred to … Continue reading →
Geographic features that appear on topographic maps in the United States are listed in an online database maintained by the federal government’s United States Geological Survey and the U. S. Board on Geographic Names. This entity is usually referred to … Continue reading →
Geographic features that appear on topographic maps in the United States are listed in an online database maintained by the federal government’s United States Geological Survey and the U. S. Board on Geographic Names. This entity is usually referred to … Continue reading →
Geographic features that appear on topographic maps in the United States are listed in an online database maintained by the federal government’s United States Geological Survey and the U. S. Board on Geographic Names. This entity is usually referred to … Continue reading →
The following text was transcribed by Lesa Cameron Boatin from the original report. Written by Robert M. Glendinning and E. N. Torbret GRAINGER COUNTY presents conditions found in a large part of the Upper Tennessee Basin. It embraces physical features … Continue reading →
This map shows the area surrounding where Grainger County formed in 1796. Source: Matthew Carey’s Map of Tennessee, dated 1795.
Continue reading →In 1972, the East Tennessee Historical Society published a history of Knox County, entitled French Broad-Holston Country. The map below is from that volume. A larger, PDF version of the map that appeared in a printed volume (bibliographic data was … Continue reading →
Click here to view Grainger County’s entry on Wikipedia.
Continue reading →The following two petitions were published by the Tennessee Genealogical Society in its journals as noted below. The transcription you see here was compared to the TGS publication, but it was not compared to the original petition documents. If you … Continue reading →
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