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East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is a public research university in Johnson City, Tennessee. Although it is part of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee, the university is governed by an institutional Board of Trustees. As of May 2017, it is the fourth largest university in the state and has off-campus centers in nearby Kingsport, Elizabethton, and Sevierville. ...
This project is part of the State of Tennessee Portal. ==About the Project=Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Tennessee. You can add profiles for:* People born in Tennessee* People who lived in Tennessee* People who died in TennesseeWhen you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit.If you have project...
The Knoxville campaign was a series of American Civil War battles and maneuvers in East Tennessee during the fall of 1863 designed to secure control of the city of Knoxville and with it the railroad that linked the Confederacy east and west, and position the First Corps under Longstreet for return to the Army of Northern Virginia. Union Army forces under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside occupied Knox...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Scott County, Tennessee. Official Website Scott County was formed in 1849 and is named for U.S. Army General Winfield Scott, a hero of the Mexican War. During the Civil War, the county was a Southern Unionist bastion, voting against secession from the Union in Tennessee's June 1861 referendum by a higher percentage (521 to 19, or 9...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Blount County, Tennessee. Official Website History On July 11, 1795, Blount County became the tenth county established in Tennessee , when the Territorial Legislature voted to split adjacent Knox and Jefferson counties. The new county was named for the governor of the Southwest Territory, William Blount , and its county seat, Mary...
Wikipedia Vanderbilt University (also known informally as Vandy) is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, founded in 1873. The university is named in honor of shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the South. The Commodore hoped that his gift and the greater work...
Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County, in the southwesternmost part of the state, and is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-most populous city in Tennessee after Nashville. Memphis is the fifth-most populous city in the Southeast, the nation's 28th-most populous overall, a...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Shelby County, Tennessee. Official Website This area along the Mississippi River valley was long occupied by varying cultures of indigenous peoples. In historic times, the Chickasaw controlled much of this area. They are believed to be descendants of the important Mississippian culture, which established fortified and complex citie...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Tennessee. Official Website Wayne County was created in 1817. It is named after General "Mad Anthony" Wayne, a prominent military leader in the American Revolutionary War. Waynesboro, its county seat, was established in 1821. Located along the Tennessee River, the city of Clifton emerged as a key river port in the mid-...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lewis County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History Lewis County was formed in 1843 and was named for explorer Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Lewis's grave is located at the geographic center of the county. Lewis County was the site of the Cane Creek Massacre. The massacre, also known as Tennessee’s Mormon Massac...
Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown was established in 1888 and chartered in 1892. It is one of three distinct cemeteries in Memphis - the other two being Forest Hill Cemetery (East) and Forest Hill Cemetery (South). It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Memphis, with many large, stately trees. It's located on 1661 Elvis Presley Blvd, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, not far from Graceland. In fact,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Warren County, Tennessee. Official Website Warren County was created in 1807 and named for Joseph Warren (1741–1775), a soldier in the American Revolution. The county was largely developed for farming of such crops as tobacco and hemp. Adjacent Counties DeKalb County White County Cannon County Coffee County Grundy Co...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Coffee County, Tennessee. Official Website Coffee County was formed in 1836 from parts of Bedford, Warren, and Franklin counties. It was named for John Coffee, a prominent planter, land speculator, and militia officer. Similar to other counties in this area of the state, planters here cultivated mostly tobacco and hemp, produced by...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cannon County, Tennessee. Official Website Cannon County was established by the Tennessee state legislature on January 31, 1836. It was formed from portions of Rutherford, Smith, Wilson, and Warren counties and was named for Governor Newton Cannon. Adjacent Counties DeKalb County Warren County Coffee County Rutherford ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Morgan County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Morgan County was formed in 1817 and was named in honor of Daniel Morgan (1736–1802), an American Revolutionary War officer who commanded the troops that defeated the British at the Battle of Cowpens, and who later served as a U.S. congressman from Virginia. Adjacent Counties * Anderson Cou...
Wikipedia The University of Memphis, also called the UofM, is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students. With 25 Chairs of Excellence and five state-approved Centers of Excellence, the school is the flagship institution of the Tennessee Board of Regents...
Wikipedia Tennessee Technological University, popularly known as Tennessee Tech, is an accredited public university located in Cookeville, Tennessee, United States, a city approximately 70 miles east of Nashville. It was formerly known as Tennessee Polytechnic Institute (1915), and before that as University of Dixie, the name under which it was founded as a private institution in 1909. It pla...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Official Website Rutherford County was formed in 1803 and was named in honor of Griffith Rutherford (1721–1805). Rutherford was a North Carolina colonial legislator and an American Revolutionary War general, who settled in Middle Tennessee after the Revolution. He was appointed President of the Council...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bedford County, Tennessee. Official Website History The county was created in 1807 when the citizens of Rutherford County living south of the Duck River and the Stones River successfully petitioned the governor to split Rutherford County in two. Once the state's largest and most populous county, Bedford County's size (in terms o...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Marshall County, Tennessee. History Marshall County was created in 1836. It was originally to be named Cannon County, but due to a clerical error at the time of formation, the names of Marshall and Cannon Counties, both formed in 1836, were accidentally swapped and never corrected. It was named after the American jurist, John Marshal...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Williamson County, Tennessee. Official Website History The Tennessee General Assembly created Williamson County on October 26, 1799. It is named after Hugh Williamson, a North Carolina politician who signed the U.S. This territory had long been inhabited by at least five Native American cultures, including the Cherokee, Chickasaw,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilson County, Tennessee. Official Website Wilson County was created in 1799, and named for Major David Wilson, a Revolutionary War veteran and statesman.[1] The county remained predominantly agrarian throughout the 19th century. The arrival of the railroad after the Civil War boosted the county's timber sector, and several large fa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Davidson County, Tennessee. It contains the state capital of Tennessee, Nashville . Official Website Davidson County is the oldest county in the 41-county region of Middle Tennessee. It dates to 1783, shortly after the end of the American Revolution, when the North Carolina legislature created the county and named it in honor of Wil...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sumner County, Tennessee. Official Website British colonial longhunters traveled into the area as early as the 1760s, following existing Indian and buffalo trails. By the early 1780s, they had erected several trading posts in the region. The most prominent was Mansker's Station, which was built by Kasper Mansker near a salt lick (wh...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Smith County, Tennessee. Official Website Smith County was established in 1799 and was named for Daniel Smith, a U.S. Senator and former Secretary of the Southwest Territory. Smith County was the site of a large saltpeter mine. Piper Cave, located near Monoville, contains the poorly preserved remnants of dozens of saltpeter leachi...