For maps before Carter County was established, look for maps that include Washington County — North Carolina, Southwest Territory, or the future Tennessee.<\/p>\n
Many pre-Statehood maps cover a wider area. For details of those maps, browse the TNGenWeb Project’s Maps<\/a> site or the Tennessee State Library & Archives’ Tennessee Virtual Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n Most original maps held in the Tennessee State Library & Archives have been digitized. Researchers can purchase hardcopies of maps from TSLA’s Manuscripts Section.<\/p>\n Be sure to check the holdings of the Library of Congress for early maps of the region.<\/p>\n Pre-impoundment maps and aerial photography for the creation of Watauga Lake are available from Tennessee Valley Authority. Much of this material is held at the National Archives’ Atlanta Branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For maps before Carter County was established, look for maps that include Washington County — North Carolina, Southwest Territory, or the future Tennessee. Many pre-Statehood maps cover a wider area. For details of those maps, browse the TNGenWeb Project’s …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography-topography","category-historic-sites","category-maps-gazetteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}