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Morristown Metropolitan Area, Tennessee
The Morristown Metropolitan Statistical Area, commonly known as the Lakeway Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties - Hamblen, and Jefferson - in eastern Tennessee, anchored by the city of Morristown. Grainger County was formerly part of both the Knoxville and Morristown Metropolitans until 2023. Including Grainger County, the 2020 census showed that the MSA had a population of 142,709. The MSA is also a component of the Knoxville-Morristown-Sevierville Combined Statistical Area. The metropolitan area formerly included Grainger County until it was removed in 2023. Counties * Hamblen * Jefferson Communities * Baneberry * Chestnut Hill (unincorporated) * Dandridge *Jefferson City * Morristown (Principal city) * New Market * Russellville (unincorporated) * Strawberry Plains (unincorporated; partial) * Talbott (unincorporated) *White Pine * Whitesburg (unincorporated) Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 123,081 ...
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African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black people, Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Slavery in the United States, Africans enslaved in the United States. In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million Black people living in the U.S. African-American history began in the 16th century, with Africans being sold to Atlantic slave trade, European slave traders and Middle Passage, transported across the Atlantic to Slavery in the colonial history of the United States, the Western He ...
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White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France as well as the flag of monarchist France from 1815 to 1830, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek temples and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18th c ...
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Census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with Population and housing censuses by country, national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include Census of agriculture, censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices. The United Nations, UN's Food ...
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Whitesburg, Tennessee
Whitesburg is an unincorporated community in eastern Hamblen County, Tennessee Hamblen County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,499. Its county seat and only incorporated city is Morristown. Hamblen County is the core county of the Morristown, Tennessee Met .... The small, rural community is located along U.S. Route 11E. Whitesburg is bordered by Russellville on the west and Bulls Gap on the east. A U.S. post office and two schools, both parts of the Hamblen County school system, are located in Whitesburg. Education Whitesburg is home to two schools: * Whitesburg Elementary * East Ridge Middle School Notable people * Reece Shipley (1921–1998), American country musician Edward R. Talley Medal of Honor recipient WWI Depending on the reference, Edward R. Talley was born on either September 6 or 8, 1890 in Russellville, Tennessee. He joined the United States Army from Russellville and after completing recr ...
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White Pine, Tennessee
White Pine is a town in Jefferson and Hamblen counties in Tennessee, United States. It is part of the Morristown metropolitan area. The population was 2,471 at the 2020 census. History Before the settlement of the area by European settlers, the White Pine area was inhabited by an early group of Woodland Indians. The area was used by the group as a site for several large burial grounds and a trail used later by settlers of the community. European settlers first arrived in present-day White Pine during the final years of the American Revolutionary War. The community was originally known as "Dandridge Crossing", based on its proximity to the Jefferson County seat, Dandridge. After the American Civil War, a railroad route was constructed in the area, crossing a prominent stagecoach path. The town was later founded in 1870 due to the growth of the area. The town was renamed to White Pine in 1873, after a large pine tree that once stood along Main Street.David Noonkesser,White Pi ...
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Talbott, Tennessee
Talbott is an unincorporated community in Hamblen and Jefferson counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t .... The community is located on US Route 11E between Morristown and Jefferson City. In 2020, the planning commission of the city of Morristown annexed a section of Talbott along U.S. Route 11E. References Unincorporated communities in Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Jefferson County, Tennessee Morristown metropolitan area, Tennessee {{JeffersonCountyTN-geo-stub ...
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Strawberry Plains, Tennessee
Strawberry Plains is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson, Knox, and Sevier counties in the State of Tennessee, United States. Before 2010, it was treated by the United States Census Bureau as a census county division. It is included in both the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Morristown Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the CDP, which only covers the Jefferson County portion of the community, was 2,405 at the 2020 census. History The community that would become Strawberry Plains would be settled in 1785 by Adam Meek, a pioneer from North Carolina who would first settle in nearby Rocky Valley, and the first established settlement of newly founded Jefferson County. Meek would resettle near the banks of the Holston River in present-day Strawberry Plains following conflicts with inhabiting Native Americans. Strawberry Plains is said to be named for the wild strawberries that grew there in abundance when ...
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Russellville, Tennessee
Russellville is a census-designated place in Hamblen County, Tennessee. Located along U.S. Route 11E-Tennessee State Route 34 (US 11E/SR 34), it is situated approximately at a midpoint between Whitesburg and Morristown. Demographics History Russellville was founded by George Russell in 1784. He had been granted a large tract of land in Greene County, North Carolina. During the American Civil War, Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet established a headquarters in the Nenney House in Russellville just after the Battle of Bean's Station in December 1863. His Confederate army used Russellville for their winter camp of 1863-64. The house still stands and has been converted into The General Longstreet Museum. Also during that winter, General Lafayette McLaws was in quarters at a house now called "Hayslope", a house that also still stands and was originally a tavern built by the early settlers. It was originally called the ''Tavern with the Red Door'', while General J ...
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New Market, Tennessee
New Market is a town in Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States. It is part of the Morristown metropolitan area. The population was 1,334 at the 2010 census and 1,349 at the 2020 census. History On September 24, 1904, two passenger trains collided head-on near New Market, killing a large, unknown number of passengers. Different sources give different values for the number of deaths, ranging from 54 to 113. There are many historical buildings in New Market, including the New Market Presbyterian Church which was built in 1885. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. Citing concerns of annexation by Jefferson City, New Market would reincorporate as a town in 1977. New Market is the current home of the Highlander Research and Education Center. Norfolk Southern intermodal project controversy In 2009, Norfolk Southern Railway released plans of a proposed intermodal freight transport truck-and-train facility in New Market as a part of the ...
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Dandridge, Tennessee
Dandridge is a town in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Tennessee. It had a population of 3,341 at the 2020 census. The town is part of the Morristown, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Jefferson and Hamblen counties. It is considered a suburb of Knoxville based on its proximity to the city, and the connection between the two via Interstate 40. Dandridge bills itself as the "second oldest town in Tennessee" (behind only Jonesborough in Washington County).Billie McNamara,Jefferson County, Tennessee Genealogy & History" 1996-2004. Retrieved: February 18, 2008. Most of the downtown area of Dandridge sits below the high level water mark of Douglas Lake and is protected by a levee made out of stone. History In the 16th century, a substantial Native American chiefdom known as Chiaha was located on Zimmerman's Island, just southwest of Dandridge along the French Broad River. Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto spent several weeks at Chiaha in 154 ...
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