The Dungan family has a long history in Carter County. William Patton “W.P.” Dungan Sr. built a grist mill in Blue Springs around 1853. The mill was torn down in 2017. Documenting History: State officials collect information on old … Continue reading →
Click here to read the biography of Dr. Abraham Jobe.
Continue reading →The home of Capt. L. H. Rhudy was built in 1894 and remained in the family until 1992. It is stop number 4 on the Elizabethton Downtown Walking Tour.
Continue reading →Click here to read the biography of .Caswell Cunningham Taylor, Jr.
Continue reading →Click here to read the biography of Dr. Edwin Eugene Hunter.
Continue reading →The following list of Carter County Civil War-related local records was compiled by Jackie and Dawn Peters in 1997 and was annotated in 2023 with the FamilySearch image links. These records are in the County Clerk’s archive. FamilySearch images are … Continue reading →
Celebration of Life planned April 23 for Dawn Peters Published April 14, 2023 By Rozella Hardin Family and friends have planned a Celebration of Life for Dawn Peters at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 23, at the Tipton-Haynes Historical Site, 2620 … Continue reading →
Contributed by Jean Evans of Dublin, VA — date of contribution unspecified. The following Gourley names and dates were handwritten on the inside covers of an old arithmetic book in the possession of Jean Evans of Dublin, VA. The title … Continue reading →
Title Author and year Publisher An Appalachian Gamekeeper’s Soliloquy of Humorous Tales: Selected Game Warden Stories of People and Places of Upper East Tennessee Volume 1 Click here for Amazon listing R. L. Pete Wyatt, 2023 Polecat Press The Wataugah … Continue reading →
Source: Goodspeed’s History of Carter County – History of Tennessee (Chicago, 1887). Transcribed by Dawn and Jackie Peters. Carter County is one of the extreme eastern counties of the State. It is bounded on the north by Sullivan County, on … Continue reading →
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