Vonore
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 City hall and library in Vonore |
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| Location in Tennessee | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1890s | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Tennessee | ||
| County : | Monroe County | ||
| Coordinates : | 35 ° 36 ′ N , 84 ° 13 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 1,474 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 65.5 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 30.7 km 2 (approx. 12 mi 2 ) of which 22.5 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 262 m | ||
| Postal code : | 37885 | ||
| Area code : | +1 423 | ||
| FIPS : | 47-77480 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1273493 | ||
| Website : | www.vonore.com | ||
Vonore is a place with 1,474 inhabitants, which is located in Monroe County in the east of the US state Tennessee . The place is about 35 miles south of Knoxville on Highway 411, right on Tellico Lake , a reservoir that was created in 1979 at the confluence of the Little Tennessee River and the Tellico River . In 2000, 1162 people lived in the place, spread over 496 households and 333 families.
history
First traces of Native American colonization in the area date back to around 7500 BC. This place is one of the oldest partially inhabited places in Tennessee. In the 18th century, the first European explorers came to the area in which the Overhill Cherokee had already settled in some villages along the Little Tennessee River. This also included the place Tanasi , the place name of which was the godfather for the name of the state of Tennessee. Also Chota , the capital of the Cherokee in the 18th century, and Tuskegee , the birthplace of Sequoyah , the Cherokee silversmith and famous inventor of the Cherokee syllabary . Tuskegee was south of the British Fort Loudoun. This fort had been built by the English in 1756 in the hope of receiving support from the Cherokee during the Seven Years' War in North America . The Tellico Blockhouse , an American outpost on the Little Tennessee River, was built in 1794 to ensure peace between the Cherokee and the rapidly advancing American settlers. In 1819, in the so-called Calhoun Treaty, the Cherokee ceded the land which is now Monroe County to the United States. Monroe County was established shortly after the assignment.
In 1890 the first railway line was laid through Monroe County. There was a stopover called Upton Station . This station was, so to speak, the nucleus of today's place. When a doctor named Walter Brownlow Kennedy applied for a post office for Upton Station three years after the station was established, he was told that a post office of that name already existed. Kennedy then decided to name the place Vonore , a combination of the German word von and the English word ore for ore. Kennedy assumed that this place would develop into a mining town. Another important event for this place took place in 1979. When the Tennessee Valley Authority completed the Tellico Dam at the mouth of the Little Tennessee River and then flooded the resulting reservoir, most of the valley's archaeological sites sank in the floods. This included Tuskagee, Sequoyah's birthplace. Fort Loudoun, which had previously been restored, had to be relocated in order not to disappear in the water. Today, like the outline of the Tellico Blockhouse , it is part of the Fort Loudoun State Park archaeological adventure park .
Web links
- factfinder2.census.gov US census data for Vonore.
- vonore.com (English)
- Fort Loudoun State Park (English)
- Fort Loudoun (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ census.gov Population from the US census for Vonore.