Blount-Knox Co. Line

Blount-Knox Co. Line is a Tennessee historical marker in Blount County.

TN 33 (US 129), at co. line

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Knox County: Established 1792; named in honor of Maj. Gen. Henry Knox Washington's Chief of Artillery in the Revolutionary War. Secretary of War in Washington's Cabinet. One of the founders and first secretary of the Society of the Cincinnati. Blount County: Established 1795; named in honor of William Blount Member of the North Carolina Legislature; twice member of Continental Congress; Governor of the Territory South of the River Ohio, 1790-1796; founder of city of Knoxville; U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1796-97; speaker of the State Senate, 1798.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1794 · Map of the Tennessee Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1796 · Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1797 · Tennassee Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1814 · Kentucky (Mathew Carey, 1814) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Historical map (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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Blount-Knox Co. Line

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