Athens, Tennessee Athens, Tennessee Mc - Minn County Courthouse in Athens Mc - Minn County Courthouse in Athens Location of Athens, Tennessee Location of Athens, Tennessee County Mc - Minn Athens is a town/city in Mc - Minn County, Tennessee, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Mc - Minn County and the principal town/city of the Athens Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Chattanooga-Cleveland-Athens Combined Statistical Area.
The Cherokee were living in Mc - Minn County at the time of the arrival of the first Euro-American explorers.
The Athens region was situated nearly halfway between the Overhill Cherokee villages of Great Tellico to the north in Monroe County and Great Hiwassee along the Hiwassee River to the south.
In 1819, the Cherokee signed the Calhoun Treaty, selling the territory north of the Hiwassee (including all of undivided Mc - Minn County) to the United States.
Mc - Minn County was organized on November 13, 1819 at the home of John Walker in what is now Calhoun.
Athens was laid out and chosen as the governmental center of county in 1822. The name "Athens" may have been chosen due to perceived topographical similarities to Athens, Greece. By 1834, the populace of Athens had grown to over 500. Prominent early pioneer included William Henry Cooke, who directed an iron forge near undivided Etowah, and Samuel Clegg (or Cleage), a assembly entrepreneur.
Wool set up his command posts at the Bridges Hotel, which was positioned athwart the street from the Mc - Minn County Courthouse. Mc - Minn County was divided amid the American Civil War.
In 1861, Mc - Minn County voted against secession by a narrow 1,144-904 margin.
The county sent 12 units to the Union army and 8 units to the Confederate army.
General William Tecumseh Sherman was briefly headquartered at the Bridges Hotel in Mc - Minn County while preparing his "March to the Sea." After the Civil War, the barns flourishing company opportunists to Mc - Minn County.
In 1946, a several Mc - Minn County World War II veterans ran for small-town office in hopes of removing a county government deemed corrupt.
Athens is positioned at 35 26 53 N 84 36 7 W (35.448171, -84.602069). The town/city is situated amidst a series of narrow, elongate ridges and low hills that are characteristic of the Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley Province.
The Unicoi Mountains rise roughly 20 miles (32 km) east of Athens, and the Tennessee River flows nearly 20 miles (32 km) to the west.
Starr Mountain, one of the more substantial ridges in Mc - Minn County, is positioned roughly 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Athens.
Oostanaula Creek (sometimes spelled "Eastanalle" or a similar variation) rises in the hills north of Athens and traverses the town/city approximately 30 miles (48 km) upstream from its mouth along Hiwassee River.
Route 11, which joins the town/city to Sweetwater to the north and Cleveland to the south, and State Route 30, which joins Athens to Etowah and U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 13.5 square miles (35 km2), all land.
Tennessee College of Applied Technology of Athens Mc - Minn County High School Athens City Middle School Ja - Juan Smith - basketball player for the University of Tennessee, played at Mc - Minn County High School The town/city is mentioned in the novel Unintended Consequences as the site of the 1946 Battle of Athens.
Mc - Minn County Airport Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, Certified Population of Tennessee Incorporated Municipalities and Counties, State of Tennessee official website, 14 July 2011.
Stephen Byrum, Mc - Minn County (Memphis, Tenn: Memphis State University Press, 1984), 5-9, 20.
Bill Akins, "City of Athens - History." Byrum, Mc - Minn County, 21.
Byrum, Mc - Minn County, 11-13.
Information obtained from the Mc - Minn County Heritage Book Committee marker at the Bridges Hotel site (c.
Byrum, Mc - Minn County, 23-32.
Byrum, Mc - Minn County, 40-60.
Information obtained from Tennessee Historical Commission marker 2 - A 102 in Athens, Tennessee.
"Athens (city) Quick - Facts".
Climate Summary for Athens, Tennessee Wikimedia Commons has media related to Athens, Tennessee.
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