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Elizabethton
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city in Tennessee, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Tennessee
- County
- Carter
- Incorporated
- May 13, 1905
- Named after
- Elizabeth MacLin Carter
- Type
- Council Manager
- Mayor
- William E. "Bill" Carter
- Mayor pro tem
- Mike Simerly
- City manager
- Daniel Estes
- Total
- 9.70 sq mi (25.11 km )
- Land
- 9.55 sq mi (24.74 km )
- Water
- 0.15 sq mi (0.38 km )
- Elevation
- 1,526 ft (465 m)
- Estimate 2026
- 14,428
- Density
- 1,523.0/sq mi (588.02/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 37643-37644
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Elizabethton (/əˈlɪzəbɛθtən/) 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 (known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772) located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original Thirteen Colonies.
The city is also the historical site of the Transylvania Purchase (1775), a major muster site during the American Revolutionary War for both the Battle of Musgrove Mill (1780) and the Battle of Kings Mountain (1780). It was within the secessionist North Carolina "State of Franklin" territory (1784–1788).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elizabethton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.