![]() A piece of southwestern Washington was also transferred to Greene County a few years later. In 1875 the Tennessee Legislature created Unicoi County from the parts of Old Washington County and Carter County nearest the North Carolina state line. Washington County, however, extended much further south than it does now, all the way to the North Carolina border. Sullivan County in 1860 had very nearly the same boundary lines as it does today (though sometime between 19 it lost a wedge of land southeast of Pine Ridge around Fall Branch, that is now part of Washington County). The Tennessee Virtual Archives also has a similar early map of Sullivan County from 1836 (north is to the top right, south to the bottom left): The two maps, from roughly 40 years apart, are largely similar, although the 4th and 6th districts were reorganized (the 6th becoming an area south of the Nolichucky around Embreeville, today a few miles northwest of Erwin the 4th becoming all of that area on the southeast side of Washington County that today is largely part of the Cherokee National Forest). Here is another map from the edition of the (Jonesborough) Herald and Tribune, which is referred to on the website and found on : ![]() (Note that this map has north pointing more-or-less to the left up is east right is south west is down). The Tennessee Virtual Archive has an early surveyor’s map of the civil districts of Washington County from 1836: The main reason for defining the Watauga Valley in this way is that this is the part in which my ancestors resided, in the lower stretches just above the confluence with the Holston. I am not particularly concerned with the upper reaches of the Valley here. I recognize this may be something of a “private definition” as the Watauga River continues into Carter County and into North Carolina. Also, none of my ancestors, insofar as I am aware, lived in Carter County, so I have no personal interest in documenting it. I am not sure aside from the one named “Elizabethton” how these records map to a particular geographical area. Part of the reason I am excluding Carter County is because the 1860 Census of Carter County was not done by civil district but by dividing the county into three divisions, named “1st Division”, “2nd Division”, and “Elizabethton”. I did not include any part of Carter County in my analysis or some parts of Sullivan County downstream of Boone Dam (for example, Civil District 14, the area where Colonial Heights is now situated). Today, this area would include all of the areas upstream of TVA Boone Dam, including Gray, much of Johnson City, as well as the unincorporated area of Piney Flats and the Tri-Cities (TRI) Airport on the Sullivan County side of the Watauga. In discussing the Watauga Valley, I am talking about an area in southern Sullivan County, Tennessee and northern Washington County, Tennessee specifically, those areas formerly known as Civil Districts 9 (Brush Creek), 10 (Knob Creek), 11 (Boones Creek a/k/a Boons Creek) and 12 (Buffalo Ridge) of Washington County and Civil District 8 and 9 of Sullivan. Newspaper Clippings re: the 29th Tennessee Regiment.Brief Biographies of Some Watauga Valley-area Civil War Soldiers.Washington County and Sullivan County Units During the Civil War. ![]()
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