Wartburg (Tennessee)
Morgan County
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Wartburg is a city in Morgan County, in eastern Tennessee in the United States. The village had 890 inhabitants in 2000 and is the county seat of Morgan County.
Geographical location
The village lies on the eastern edge of the Cumberland Plateau in the Crab Orchard Mountains, one belonging to the Cumberland Mountains highlands. The Bird Mountain dominates the area east of the village, he gets off his foot on the edge for a distance of approximately 16 km to a peak altitude of about 958 m at the Frozen Head State Park. Near the summit is the source of the Emory River, which flows north to Wartburg from there on the north side of the mountain pass to the west and then flows towards the south of the plateau in the Tennessee River reservoir belonging to Watts Bar Lake. The Obed River flows from the Cumberland County to the east through a canyon and flows west of Wartburg in the Emory River.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the area of the village is about 2.5 km ².
Transport
Wartburg is located near the intersection of U.S. Route 27, which leads south to Harriman and Interstate 40, and north to Kentucky, and Tennessee State Route 62, which continues east to Oak Ridge and westward to Tennessee leads into it.
History
The area of Morgan County was originally the land of the Cherokee and in 1805 was assigned the third Treaty of Tellico to the United States. Wartburg was founded in 1840 by George Gerding, who bought up large areas of land to found a new colony.
Under the direction of the Schwarzenberg pastor Hermann Behr emigrants was attempted 1847-1848 to advertise especially from the vicinity of Leipzig and Dresden. To this end, they went with the sale of land so far, the official appointed by Congress Country Price of 1 1 /4 Dollar reduce to only one dollar. This should really have been making suspicious that the promised land is really as prolific as described. In Leipzig, the emigration agent Johann Ernst Weigel advertised (then Grimm ash st 33) for the colony (for example in ads in the Leipziger Tageblatt).
German and Swiss immigrants founded the settlement, which they named after the Wartburg in Germany. The official founding date is the year 1851.
Once the colony is not deployed correctly, Weigel waved together with a F. G. Günther, who had allegedly collected twelve years of experience in America, to a new object to that in the term, Kingston Country Compagnie 'Land East Tennessee sold. An early warning voice against ill-considered purchase of land already in Germany was Friedrich Gerstäcker who publicly grappling also with Weigel and Günther.
In 1879, the Morgan County its headquarters from Montgomery to Wartburg decided to relocate. 1880 the railroad reached the city and led to an expansion of forestry and increased coal mining.
Nature and Leisure
There are several national or state nature parks in the area:
- Obed Wild and Scenic River ( whitewater areas on the Obed River, administered by the U.S. National Park Service )
- Frozen Head State Park ( between Wartburg and Petros located )
- Lone Mountain State Forest (along the U.S. Route 27 between Wartburg and Harriman located )
- Catoosa Wildlife Management Area (west of Wartburg )
- Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (one large, to Kentucky influence area at some distance north of Wartburg )
Source
- Leipziger Tageblatt of November 19, 1848
- City in Tennessee
- Place in North America
- Morgan County ( Tennessee)
- County Seat in Tennessee