Maryville, Tennessee
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Maryville is a city in and the county seat of Blount County, Tennessee. Its population was 31,907 at the 2020 census.
Skyline with Greenbelt Park below
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Monument marking the spring that once supplied water to Fort Craig
Sam Houston Schoolhouse in Maryville
Sam Houston
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Samuel Houston was an American military general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution in which the Republic of Texas seceded from Mexico. He served as the first and third p
Maryville, Tennessee
…settlement was named in honor of Mary Grainger Blount, wife of the territorial governor William Blount. Blount County was named after him. The family of Sam Houston moved to Maryville from Virginia in 1808, when Houston was 15. His older brothers put him to work as a clerk in a store they established in town, but…
Portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1848–1850
Sam Houston Birthplace Marker in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Painting of Houston from 1836
Detail from Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto by Henry Arthur McArdle