Dandridge, Tennessee Dandridge, Tennessee Dandridge Town Hall (foreground) and Jefferson County Courthouse (background) Dandridge Town Hall (foreground) and Jefferson County Courthouse (background) Location of Dandridge, Tennessee Location of Dandridge, Tennessee County Jefferson Dandridge is a town in Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States.
It had a populace of 2,812 at the 2010 census. It is the governmental center of county of Jefferson County. The town is part of the Morristown, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Dandridge bills itself as the "second earliest town/city in Tennessee" (behind only Jonesborough). A large part of Dandridge, including most of the historic commercial center, sits below the high level water mark of Douglas Lake, and is protected by a saddle dam.
In the 16th century, a substantial Native American chiefdom known as Chiaha was positioned on Zimmerman's Island, just southwest of Dandridge along the French Broad River.
In 1793, the town was officially titled the governmental center of county of Jefferson County, which had been created the previous year. The town was titled for Martha Dandridge Washington, the wife of the first president of the United States. The assembly of Douglas Dam in 1942 flooded much of the best farmland in Jefferson County, and threatened to flood most all of downtown Dandridge, which was situated below the proposed reservoir's high-water mark.
Residents of the town successfully petitioned then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, however, pointing out that Dandridge was the only town in the United States titled for the wife of George Washington.
The Tennessee Valley Authority constructed a saddle dam between downtown Dandridge and the lake.
Dandridge is positioned at 36 1 43 N 83 25 26 W (36.028493, -83.424010). The town is situated along the northern bank of the Douglas Lake impoundment of the French Broad River, approximately 45 miles (72 km) upstream from the river's confluence with the Holston River and Tennessee River at Knoxville, and approximately 12 miles (19 km) upstream from Douglas Dam.
Dandridge is centered on the junction of State Route 92, which joins the town to Jefferson City to the north and U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 5.3 square miles (14 km2), all of it land.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 24.0% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 26.3% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 20.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $34,167, and the median income for a family was $40,357.
Tennessee Blue Book, 2005-2006, pp.
Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, Certified Population of Tennessee Incorporated Municipalities and Counties, State of Tennessee official website, 14 July 2011.
Billie Mc - Namara, "Jefferson County, Tennessee Genealogy & History," 1996-2004.
Charles Hudson, The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Explorations of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568 (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2005), 36-40.
The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States.
Tennessee Historical Commission Marker IC 49 on the Jefferson County Courthouse lawn in Dandridge.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing: Decennial Censuses".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
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