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# Title
1  Land Grants: An Overview of North Carolina's Land Act of 1777
2  East Tenn County Formation: Dates Formed, Parent Counties, County Seats
3  Using County Formation Data In Your Research
4  Knox County Tales: Secret Silver Mines in Copper Ridge
5  Grainger County: Taxable Inhabitants Living Within Indian Boundary, 1797
6  East Tennessee Extant Federal Census Records: Population, Manufactures, Mortality, Slave, Agricultural, Deficient & Insane, Union Veterans and Widows
7  East Tennessee's 1820 Census of Manufactures
8  Does My Court Record Exist? Where to Find Out What County Court Records Exist and Then Read Them For Yourself 
9  Hawkins Co. Revolutionary Pensioners As Found in 1840 Hawkins Co. Census
10  Perpetual Calendar 1753-2024
11  Evaluating Primary Documents: Letters, Journals, and Diaries
12  John Brabson Shields' Reminiscences [Hamblen County]
13  Col. Samuel Wear Explains the Death of Cherokee Sassa [1802]
14  The Knoxville 'Lottery'
15  Pharaoh Jackson Chesney
16  Before Tennessee Statehood: The Watauga Era 1772-1776
17  A Partial List of Watauga Residents
18  Do It Right! Using Primary and Secondary Sources in Your Research
19  Useful Maps: Tenn Dept of Transportation; Tennessee Valley Authority
20  Where, Oh Where, Are The County Court Records?
21  The East Tennessee History Center: Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection -- Knox County Archives -- East Tennessee Historical Society and the Museum of East Tennessee History
22  The 1850 Scott County, Tennessee, Slave Schedules
23  Early Grainger County Ferries and Mills
24  Elisha Baker: The Founder of Knoxville?
25  A Folk Art Clock From Appalachia
26  Recommended East Tenn Resources, Part 1: Some I Just Cannot Live Without
27  Early Jonesborough Residents As Recalled by Col. Robert I. Chester (1793-1891)
28  Christopher Alex Haun: Bridgeburner and Potter
29  Navigation on the Tennessee and Holston Rivers in the 1830s As Recollected by Marcus Parrott
30  21st Annual Wilderness Wildlife Week, Jan. 8-15, 2011 -- Pigeon Forge, TN
31  Using Unclaimed Letter Lists as Resources
32  Unclaimed Letters at Elizabethton P.O., 1837
33  Unclaimed Letters at Loudon P.O., 1853
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Above: Reconstructed Fort Loudon (Monroe County). 
Taken at their Garrison Weekend back in May, 2004, Capt. Paul Demere, who ran the fort -- one of the traders who had come in to do some business -- one of the cannon -- and a Cherokee summer house reconstructed just outside the fort's walls.
The lowest picture is the soldiers' barracks, that had just been built in time for their Trade Faire in September, 2007.
Info Sheets By Topic

Counties
32 [Carter] Unclaimed Letters at Elizabethton P.O., 1837 
Grainger County: Taxable Inhabitants Living Within the Indian Boundary, 1797
23 Early Grainger County Ferries and Mills
12 [Hamblen] John Brabson Shields' Reminiscences
Hawkins County Revolutionary Pensioners As Found in the 1840 Census
Knox County Tales: Secret Silver Mines in Copper Ridge
14 [Knox] The Knoxville 'Lottery'
24 [Knox] Elisha Baker: The Founder of Knoxville?
22 The 1850 Scott County, Tennessee, Slave Schedules
27 [Washington] Early Jonesborough Residents, As Recalled by Col. Robert I. Chester (1793-1891)


Civil War
28 Christopher Alex Haun: Bridgeburner and Potter


Daily Life and Culture
4 Knox County Tales: Secret Silver Mines in Copper Ridge
12 John Brabson Shields' Reminiscences
23 Early Grainger County Ferries and Mills
25 A Folk Art Clock From Appalachia
28 Christopher Alex Haun: Bridgeburner and Potter
29 Steamboat Navigation on the Tennessee and Holston Rivers in the 1830s As Recollected by Marcus Parrott


How-To
1 Land Grants: An Overview of North Carolina's Land Act of 1777
3 Using County Formation Data in Your Research
6 East Tennessee Extant Federal Census Records: Population, Manufactures, Mortality, Slave, Agricultural, Deficient & Insane, Union Veterans & Widows
8 Does My Court Record Exist? Where to Find Out What County Court Records Exist and then Read Them For Yourself
11 Evaluating Primary Documents: Letters, Journals, and Diaries
18 Do It Right! Using Primary and Secondary Sources in Your Research
​31 Using Unclaimed Letter Lists as Resources

Indians
13 Col. Samuel Wear Explains the Death of Cherokee Sassa


Miscellaneous
10 Perpetual Calendar 1753 - 2024
30 21st Annual Wilderness Wildlife Week: January 8-15, 2011, Pigeon Forge, TN


Pre- and Early-Statehood
1 Land Grants: An Overview of North Carolina's Land Act of 1777
5 Grainger County: Taxable Inhabitants Living Within the Indian Boundary, 1797
13 Col. Samuel Wear Explains the Death of Cherokee Sassa
14 The Knoxville 'Lottery'
16 Before Tennessee Statehood: Watauga Era 1772-1776
17 A Partial List of Watauga Residents
24 Elisha Baker: The Founder of Knoxville?


Resources
2 East Tennessee County Formation: Dates Formed, Parent Counties, and County Seats
6 East Tennessee Extant Federal Census Records: Population, Manufactures, Mortality, Slave, Agricultural, Deficient & Insane, Union Veterans & Widows
7 East Tennessee's 1820 Census of Manufactures
19 Useful Maps: TN State Department of Transportation; Tennessee Valley Authority
20 Where, Oh Where, Are The County Court Records?
21 The East Tennessee History Center: Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, Knox County Archives, East Tennessee Historical Society and the Museum of East Tennessee History
26 Recommended East Tennessee Resources: Part 1: Some I Just Cannot Live Without
31 Using Unclaimed Letter Lists as Resources

Revolutionary Era
​9 Hawkins County Revolutionary Pensioners As Found in the 1840 Census


Slavery
15 Pharaoh Jackson Chesney
22 The 1850 Scott County, Tennessee, Slave Schedules