The New Port

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The New Port

U.S. 411 at the French Broad River, TN , USA

Tennessee State
Historical Marker

Here, near the ford below Major Peter Fine's ferry, the town was established in 1799. It was the head of flatboat navigation on the French Broad; each spring a fleet went down river. The townsite moved about 1867, after the railroad was built along Pigeon River.

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