FORD ON A MOUNTAIN STREAM— TYPICAL SCENERY OF THE KNOXVILLE KECION. 



TENNESSEE 



The early history of Tennessee reads much like a Leather- 

 stocking Tale. From the time TYhen that region was the hunting 

 ground of the Chickasaw, Choctaw and Shawnee Indians, the 

 last named being its first occupants, up to the close of the Civil 

 war, it was almost constantly the scene of strife and bloodshed. 

 Its Indian wars, political contests and personal encounters were 

 frequent and ferocious, and in all the annals of the states there is 

 no more stirring and holding record of people and events than the 

 early history of the Lion's Den state presents. 



In 1768 James Eobinson headed a body of North Carolinans 

 which settled on the Wautaga river, and became known as the 

 "Wautaga Association, and from 1769 to 1777 it was represented 

 in the North Carolina legislature as the District of Washington. 

 In 1785 the state of Frankland was organized with John Sevier as 

 its first governor. He was a native of Virginia, born in Rocking- 

 ham county, September 23, 17-15. In 1788 the new state was 

 reunited with the parent state, and a year later was ceded by 

 North Carolina to the national government. 



Foremost among the secessionists of western North Carolina, 

 and largely instrumental in the formation of Tennessee as a 

 commonwealth, John Sevier was the most prominent and striking 

 figure. When Tennessee was organized, in 1788, he was governer 

 until 1801. He was again governor from 1803 to 1809, and in 

 1811 he was a member of Congress. 



In the early history of the territory, and after it was ad- 

 mitted to statehood, June 1, 1796, Sevier was constantly at the 

 center of action, first as Indian fighter and later as politician and 

 statesman. He was at one time arraigned by the authorities of 

 North Carolina on the charge of high treason and outlawry, and 

 while the trial was in progress was rescued from the clutch of the 

 law by James Cosby and his friends, escaping on his fleet-footed 

 mare to safety in the forest. His offense against North Carolina 

 was mainly his disregard for the state laws controlling land owner- 

 ship and contempt of its governing power. September 24, 1815, 

 while on a mission to the Creek Indians at Fort Decatur, Ala., he 

 died. His ashes now repose under a monument erected to his 

 memory in the courthouse yard at Knoxville. j 



KNOXVILLE 



Knoxville, the first capital of the territory, named in honor of 

 General Knox, then Secretary of War, was the scene of some 

 of the most exciting and memorable events of the pioneer days 

 of Tennessee and is the center of one of the richest sections of 

 country east of the Mississippi river. 



Knoxville, together with its suburbs, is a city of approximately 

 seventy-five thousand population, located in the foot-hills of the 

 mountains, along the Great Tennessee river, midway between the 

 Great Smoky mountains on the east, and the plateau of the 

 Cumberland mountains on the west. It is the county seat of Knox 

 county, and the city is located in the center of one of the most 



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