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    Watauga /wəˈtɔːɡə/ is a city in Carter and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The population was 403 at the 2000 census, 458 at the 2010...
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    Carter County, Tennessee, United States. Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government (known as the Watauga Association...
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    Watauga Lake, located east of Elizabethton, Tennessee, is the local name of the Watauga Reservoir created by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) with...
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    The Watauga River (/wəˈtɔːɡə/) is a large stream of western North Carolina and East Tennessee. It is 78.5 miles (126.3 km) long with its headwaters in...
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    settlers living along the Watauga River in what is now Elizabethton, Tennessee. Although it lasted only a few years, the Watauga Association provided a basis...
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    Watauga Dam is a hydroelectric and flood control dam on the Watauga River in Carter County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is owned and operated by...
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  • Watauga can refer to: Places Watauga, Kentucky Watauga County, North Carolina Watauga, South Dakota Watauga, Tennessee Watauga, Texas Bodies of Water Watauga...
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    Meadowview, Virginia (CDP) Mooresburg, Tennessee (CDP) Nickelsville, Virginia Telford, Tennessee (CDP) Watauga, Tennessee As of the census of 2000, there were...
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    and East Tennessee. The headwaters begin from the Northwestern slopes of Peak Mountain in Avery County, North Carolina and end at the Watauga River in...
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    Fort Watauga, also known as Fort Caswell, was a fortification located in the Watauga River's Sycamore Shoals near modern-day Elizabethton, Tennessee. It...
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  • Little Tennessee River forms Tellico Lake Tims Ford Dam on the Elk River impounds Tims Ford Lake Watauga Dam on the Watauga River impounds Watauga Lake...
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    Watauga County (/wəˈtɔːɡə/ wuh-TAW-guh) is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 54,086. Its...
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    the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is located along the northern shore of Watauga Lake. Butler is served by a post office, assigned...
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    Clarksville. Tennessee's population as of the 2020 United States census is approximately 6.9 million. Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association,...
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    86. A railroad bridge at Carter's Depot (modern Watauga) was among those targeted by the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy in November 1861. Carter...
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    of the bridges targeted by the East Tennessee bridge-burners in November 1861 was located in what is now Watauga near the Washington-Carter county line...
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    Sycamore Shoals (category Protected areas of Carter County, Tennessee)
    of the Watauga River, usually shortened to Sycamore Shoals, is a rocky stretch of river rapids along the Watauga River in Elizabethton, Tennessee. Archeological...
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    section of East Tennessee, in areas surrounding the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River, near present-day Elizabethton, Tennessee. Watauga received a railroad...
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  • Iron Mountains (category Landforms of Watauga County, North Carolina)
    Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina. A portion of the Appalachian Trail runs the crest of the Iron Mountains above Watauga Lake and the Watauga River...
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    carrying tourists by water between exhibits. Also located along Lake Watauga, the Negro Building was designed in a Spanish Renaissance style. Exhibits...
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    Doe River (category Tributaries of the Watauga River)
    The Doe River is a tributary of the Watauga River in northeast Tennessee in the United States. The river forms in Carter County near the North Carolina...
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    northeast Tennessee geological limestone feature with high caves that overlooks the Watauga River and the Siam community of Carter County, Tennessee. Bee Cliff...
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    Elizabethton, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The park consists of 70 acres (28.3 ha) situated along the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River, a National Historic...
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    John Sevier (category Tennessee Democratic-Republicans)
    the Tennessee Valley frontier in the 1770s. In 1776, he was elected one of five magistrates of the Watauga Association and helped defend Fort Watauga against...
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    located northeast of Elizabethton in Carter County, Tennessee, along Tennessee State Route 91 and the Watauga River. Its population was 1,854 as of the 2010...
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    The Tennessee Valley begins in the upper head water portions of the Holston River, the Watauga River, and the Doe River in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest...
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    James Robertson (explorer) (category People from Nashville, Tennessee)
    of what became the State of Tennessee. An early companion of explorer Daniel Boone, Robertson helped establish the Watauga Association in the early 1770s...
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  • Appalachian State University began in 1899 when a group of residents in Watauga County, under the leadership of Blanford B. Dougherty and his brother Dauphin...
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    (1,682 m). The lowest point in the county is Watauga Lake, at an elevation of 1,959 feet (597 m). Watauga Lake Washington County, Virginia (north) Grayson...
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    Blue Ridge Mountains, and includes parts of Watauga County, North Carolina, and Johnson County, Tennessee. It has two peaks, the higher of which reaches...
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