Vonore, Tennessee

Blount County Monroe County

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Vonore is a town with 1474 inhabitants, is located in Blount County and Monroe County in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The village is located about 35 miles south of Knoxville on Hwy 411, right on Tellico Lake, a reservoir, which is originated in 1979 at the confluence of the Little Tennessee River and the Tellico River. In 2000 lived in the town of 1162 people, spread over 496 households and 333 families.

History

The first traces of a settlement of the area by Native Americans are to the period around 7500 BC. dated, making it one of the site of the oldest inhabited places partly in Tennessee. In the 18th century, the first European explorers arrived in the area in which already the Overhill Cherokee had settled in some villages along the Little Tennessee River. And also the place Tanasi, whose place name has been the inspiration for the name of the State of Tennessee. Furthermore, Chota, the capital of the Cherokee in the 18th century, and Tuskegee, birthplace of Sequoyah, the Cherokee silversmith and famous inventor of the Cherokee syllabary. Tuskegee was located south of the British forts Loudoun. This fort was built by the British in 1756 in the hope to obtain from the Cherokee support during the Seven Years' War in North America. The Tellico Blockhouse, an American outpost at the Little Tennessee River, was built in 1794 to ensure peace between the Cherokee and the ever faster advancing American settlers. In 1819 it was named so-called Calhoun Treaty of the Cherokee country, which includes the current Monroe County, ceded to the United States. Shortly after the assignment, the Monroe County was founded.

1890, the first railway line through the Monroe County was created. There was a stopover, bearing the name Upton station. This station was in a way the nucleus of the present-day village. Than three years after the formation of this panel a doctor named Walter Brownlow Kennedy applied for a post office for Upton station, he was told that there were already a post office by that name. Kennedy then decided it to call the place " Vonore ," a combination of the German word "of" and the word " ore" for Ore. Kennedy went because it is clear that this place would develop into a mining town. Another important event took place in 1979 for this location. When the Tennessee Valley Authority had in fact completed at the mouth of the Little Tennessee River to Tellico Dam and then the resulting dam basin was flooded, sank most of the archaeological sites of the valley in the floods. This included Tuskagee, Sequoyahs birthplace. The previously restored Fort Loudoun had to be implemented in order not to disappear in the water. It is today, as well as the outlines of the Tellico Blockhouse, the Archaeological Adventure Park Fort Loudoun State Park.

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