Wall art in the East Tennessee History museum, a Revolutionary War message for our time
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It's located in downtown Knoxville, TN, smack in the middle of east Tennessee, not far from Smoky Mtn. National Park.
Sycamore Shoals?
That's in Elizabethton TN, not far from Knoxville. Not many people know it, but what is now east Tennessee played a role in the American Revolutionary War.
Been there a million. Good fishing on the Watauga back there.
" In 1772, the Watauga settlers established the Watauga Association, one of the first constitutional governments west of the Appalachian Mountains and the "germ-cell" of what would later become the state of Tennessee.[3]
In 1775, Richard Henderson and Daniel Boone negotiated the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, in which Henderson's Transylvania Company purchased a large part of modern Kentucky and part of Tennessee from the Cherokee. The following year, the Watauga settlers successfully repelled one arm of a Cherokee group contesting land near Fort Watauga in a struggle that saw the creation of numerous stories surrounding figures such as Nancy Ward and John Sevier. In 1780, at the height of the American Revolutionary War, the frontier militia known as the Overmountain Men mustered at Sycamore Shoals as it prepared to march across the mountains en route to victory over British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain.[2]"
Daniel Boone trekked down this road I'm on. 250 yr old beech with an Indian on horseback carved in a tree 30 ft from rt here. Ain't telling nobody.
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