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
Watauga Association
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The Watauga Association was a semi-autonomous government created in 1772 by frontier settlers living along the Watauga River in what is now Elizabethton, Tennessee. Although it lasted only a few years
William Bean
…William Bean (December 9, 1721 – May 1782) was a frontiersman, longhunter, and Commissioner of the Watauga Association. He is accepted by historians as the first permanent European American settler of Tennessee. William Bean was born December 9, 1721. In 1744, Bean…
DAR monument in Elizabethton, Tennessee, recalling the establishment of the Watauga Association
Roads of Tennessee in 1795