Tennessee County, North Carolina was a subdivision of the

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in the '' Overmountain Region''—which later became the

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History

Tennessee County was organized in 1788 from a portion of

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. Both were transferred, along with the state's five other western counties (the former

), to Federal jurisdiction in 1790 and formed into the

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. The county was divided into Montgomery and

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counties in 1796, when Tennessee became the nation's 16th state.Se
''Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century (1853)''
page 739;''Origins of Tennessee County Names''
in "

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;" a
Tennessee Records in the North Carolina State Archives
content notes: identifies the older counties from which new counties were formed. The land area formerly included in Tennessee County now forms

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, Montgomery, and Robertson counties and portions of Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham, and

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counties.

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