William Bean
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William Bean was a frontiersman, longhunter, and Commissioner of the Watauga Association. He is accepted by historians as the first permanent European American settler of Tennessee.
The view of the German Creek valley as seen from Clinch Mountain
Fort Watauga
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Fort Watauga, also known as Fort Caswell, was a fortification located in the Watauga River's Sycamore Shoals near modern-day Elizabethton, Tennessee. It was constructed from 1775 to 1776 by the Wataug
The reconstructed Fort Watauga at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park.
Depiction of the Cherokee assault on Fort Watauga in July 1776. Future Tennessee governor John Sevier is shown pulling his future wife, Catherine "Bonny Kate" Sherrill, over the fort's palisades.
Fort Watauga's palisade, parapet, and north corner cabin