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Blount - Knox County Line

TN , USA
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Blount County
Established 1795; named in honor of
William Blounl


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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