Clinton, Tennessee Clinton, Tennessee Location in Anderson County and state of Tennessee.
Location in Anderson County and state of Tennessee.
Clinton is a town/city in Anderson County, Tennessee, United States.
Its populace was 9,841 at the 2010 census. It is the governmental center of county of Anderson County. Clinton is encompassed in the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area.
1.1 Clinton High School desegregation controversy View of Clinton in 1938 By the time Euro-American explorers and long hunters appeared in the Clinch valley in the mid-18th century, what is now Anderson County was part of a vast stretch of territory claimed by the Cherokee. Although the Treaty of Holston, signed in 1791, was intended as a negotiation with the Cherokee to prohibit Euro-American settlement of the region including what is today Anderson County, the treaty became ineffective as more pioneer moved through the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia and North Carolina into Tennessee.
Land was chose and partitioned for a courthouse, and Burrville was designated as the governmental center of county for the newly formed Anderson County.
The county was partitioned from portions of Grainger County and Knox County in 1801; neighboring Roane County was also formed from a portion of Knox County in 1801, making Anderson and Roane counties effectively "sister counties". The selection of the name "Clinton" was most likely to honor George Clinton or his nephew, De - Witt Clinton. George Clinton was one of Burr's New York political rivals who, along with Alexander Hamilton, finished Burr's bid for the governorship of the state of New York after his single-term Vice Presidency.
George Clinton succeeded Burr as the second-term Vice President for Thomas Jefferson in 1805 (and also served as James Madison's Vice President, making Clinton the first Vice President to serve under two presidents and the first Vice President to die in office).
Because of the political position of George Clinton as Vice President at the time of Burrville's name change, compared to De - Witt Clinton's position as the mayor of New York City, most likely the inhabitants of the town of Burrville would have been more readily identifiable and more honorable toward George Clinton than De - Witt; therefore, it is most likely Clinton was titled after George Clinton, barring historical proof.
Clinton High School desegregation controversy black students entering Clinton High School, December 1956 For more details on this topic, see Clinton High School, Tennessee Integration.
In 1956, Clinton attained national consideration when segregationists opposed the desegregation of Clinton High School.
On August 27, 1956, the Clinton Twelve attended classes at Clinton High School for the first time, becoming the first African-Americans to desegregate a state-supported enhance school in the Southeast.
While the first day of classes occurred without incident, pro-segregation forces led by John Kasper and Asa Carter appeared in Clinton the following week and rallied the city's white people.
Clement to station National Guard units in Clinton throughout September.
Sporadic violence and threats continued for the next two years, culminating in the bombing of Clinton High School on October 5, 1958.
A exhibition dedicated to the desegregation crisis, the Green Mc - Adoo Cultural Center, is now homed in Clinton's segregation-era Green Mc - Adoo School.
In the 1990s, the Rogers Group, a firm specializing in road paving, began a campaign to reactivate an abandoned quarry and build an asphalt plant just east of Clinton near the improve of Bethel.
Nevertheless, Anderson County refused to rezone the quarry property for industrialized uses, and Rogers Group sued the county in 1995. In December 2006, after Rogers Group's lawsuit had stagnated, the town/city of Clinton voted to annex the quarry property. On August 20, 2007, the Clinton City Council voted 6 1 to rezone the quarry property for industrialized uses, paving the way for the plant's construction.
In response, a small-town advocacy group known as Citizens for Safety and Clean Air filed a lawsuit on behalf of a several Bethel inhabitants in Anderson County Chancery Court contending that the council's rezoning was unconstitutional and seeking an injunction preventing the council from rezoning the property as an industrialized zone. Downtown Clinton Clinton is positioned at 36 6 17 N 84 7 43 W (36.104772, 84.128487), along the Clinch River, immediately downstream from a point where the southwestward-flowing river bends sharply to the northeast before wrapping around Lost Ridge and closing again toward the southwest.
This section of the river is technically part of Melton Hill Lake, a reservoir created by the impoundment of the Clinch at Melton Hill Dam some 35 miles (56 km) downstream from Clinton.
Clinton is positioned approximately 59 miles (95 km) upstream from the mouth of the Clinch at the Tennessee River.
Clinton is surrounded by a series of long, narrow ridges that represent the fringe of the Appalachian Ridge and Valley Province.
Northwest of Clinton is Walden Ridge, the easterly escarpment of the Cumberland Plateau.
Clinton is concentrated around the junction of Tennessee State Route 61 and U.S.
Interstate 75 intersects TN-61 northeast of downtown Clinton.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Clinton has a total region of 12.0 square miles (31.1 km2), of which 11.4 square miles (29.6 km2) is territory and 0.58 square miles (1.5 km2), or 4.91%, is water. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Clinton has a Humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Climate data for Clinton, Tennessee Trey Hollingsworth, congressman born in Clinton Houk, congressman born in Clinton The Mc - Kameys, Southern Gospel group based in Clinton Tennessee Blue Book, 2005 2006, pp.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Clinton city, Tennessee".
Glyn Du - Vall, "A Phase I Archaeological Survey of Proposed Potable Water Storage and Force Main Facilities, Y-12 National Security Complex Site, Anderson County, Tennessee." Snyder Roberts, "Historical Background of Anderson County, TN," originally presented in History of Clinton Senior High School, 1971.
Anderson County, Tennessee.
History of Roane County, Tennessee, Volume 1.
Carroll Van West, "Clinton Desegregation Crisis." a b Leean Tupper, "Citizens Sue Clinton and Rogers Group," 19 September 2007.
Bob Fowler, "Clinton Passes Annex Rezoning." Climate Summary for Clinton, Tennessee Charles Wolfe, The Tennessee Ramblers: Ramblin' On." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clinton, Tennessee.
Municipal Technical Advisory Service entry for Clinton knowledge on small-town government, elections, and link to charter Municipalities and communities of Anderson County, Tennessee, United States
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