Elizabethton, Tennessee
Videos
Elizabethton is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original Thirteen Colonies.
Downtown Elizabethton, July 4 parade (2008)
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap (George Caleb Bingham, oil on canvas, 1851–52)
Gravestone of Samuel Tipton, "Founder of Elizabethton", located at the Green Hill Cemetery (West Mill Street). Tipton donated the land for the town that would initially be known as Tiptonville within the State of Franklin, and later as Elizabethton after Tennessee was admitted into the United States of America.
Rear Admiral/Brevet Major GeneralSamuel P. Carter
Watauga River
Videos
The Watauga River is a large stream of western North Carolina and East Tennessee. It is 78.5 miles (126.3 km) long with its headwaters in Linville Gap to the South Fork Holston River at Boone Lake.
The Watauga River near Valle Crucis, North Carolina
The Watauga River below the TVA Wilbur Dam
Kayaker at the Bee Cliff Rapids paddling inside "The Big Hole"
Raft guide, Trey Boggs, plunging whitewater rafters downstream through "The Big Hole" in the Bee Cliff Rapids