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    The Holston River is a 136-mile (219 km) river that flows from Kingsport, Tennessee, to Knoxville, Tennessee. Along with its three major forks (North Fork...
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    Cherokee village named Tanasi. The Tennessee River is formed at the confluence of the Holston and French Broad rivers in present-day Knoxville, Tennessee. From...
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    with its headwaters in Linville Gap to the South Fork Holston River at Boone Lake. The Watauga River rises from a spring located south to the base of Peak...
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    Tennessee, where its confluence with the Holston River at Knoxville forms the beginning of the Tennessee River. The river flows through the counties of Transylvania...
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  • Hiwassee River forms Apalachia Reservoir Blue Ridge Dam dams the Toccoa River, forming Blue Ridge Reservoir Boone Dam on the South Fork Holston River forms...
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  • North River Little River French Broad River Little Pigeon River Nolichucky River Pigeon River Holston River North Fork Holston River South Fork Holston River...
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  • Holston may refer to: Holston, Virginia Holston River Holston Formation Treaty of Holston Holston Conference, an annual conference within Methodism Holston...
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    romanized: Amoyeli Gunahita), also known as Long Island of the Holston, is an island in the Holston River at Kingsport in East Tennessee. Important in regional...
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    Hamblen–Grainger county line at the Cherokee Lake impoundment of the Holston River. Before exiting Morristown, US 25E has an incomplete interchange with...
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  • (North Fork Holston River tributary) South Fork Holston River Beaver Creek Middle Fork Holston River Laurel Creek (South Fork Holston River tributary)...
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    As of the 2020 census, its population was 55,442. Lying along the Holston River, Kingsport is commonly included in what is known as the Mountain Empire...
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    South Holston Lake is located near the town of Abingdon, Virginia and the city of Bristol, Virginia / Bristol, Tennessee, and is a 7,580-acre (31 km2)...
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  • way to visit the Cherokees between the Reedy Creek settlement and the Holston River. Stalnaker had established a trading post and traded with the Indians...
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    the Holston River, whose head would form a new boundary that extended again to the ridge between the Little River, the Tennessee River and the Holston River...
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    the 2020 census the population was 8,419. Heading southwest along the Holston River from Virginia, Adam and Elizabeth Peck arrived on the banks of Mossy...
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    Watauga rivers. The water eventually flows through the Watauga River, the Holston River, the Tennessee River, the Ohio River, and the Mississippi River to...
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  • Three Rivers Rambler is an excursion train in Knoxville, Tennessee along the Tennessee River. The train is operated by the Knoxville and Holston River Railroad...
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    settlement in the Mascot area may have centered on a ford across the Holston River which was known as Saylor's Ford. In 1838, Dr. George Arnold, a physician...
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    Holston Mountain is a mountain ridge in Upper East Tennessee and southwest Virginia, in the United States. It is in the Blue Ridge Mountains part of the...
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    the establishment of a Methodist church "on the hill" overlooking the Holston River valley. The church still stands today on Grandview Street. The city...
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    Fork Holston River and the North Fork Holston River join to form the Holston River, one of the tributaries of the Tennessee River. The Watauga River, a...
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  • The River was filmed in the Holston Valley area of Church Hill, Tennessee. The filmmakers purchased 440 acres (1.8 km2) along the Holston River for the...
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    1775, pioneers Daniel Boone and William Bean had first observed the Holston River valley in Grainger County after crossing the gap at Clinch Mountain...
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  • Cumberland River South Fork American River South Fork Eel River South Fork Grand River (South Dakota) South Fork Holston River South Fork John Day River South...
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    Knoxville, Tennessee (category Tennessee populated places on the Tennessee River)
    Expedition, which passed through the confluence of the Holston and French Broad into the Tennessee River in December 1761. Henry Timberlake, an Anglo-American...
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    tributary of the Beech River; finished in 1965 by the TVA South Holston Dam — South Holston Lake; on the South Fork Holston River; finished in 1950 by the...
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    in Smyth County, Virginia, United States, on the Middle Fork of the Holston River. The population was 1,781 at the 2010 census. The name Chilhowie is...
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    South Holston Dam is a hydroelectric and flood control dam on the South Fork Holston River in Sullivan County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the...
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    Cherokee Lake (category Holston River)
    reservoir in the U.S. state of Tennessee formed by the impoundment of the Holston River behind Cherokee Dam. The reservoir has a surface area of about 28,780...
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    existence of the fragile settlements in the Watauga, Nolichucky, and Holston river valleys, the legitimacy of which had been questioned by the British...
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