Maryville, Tennessee Maryville, Tennessee Location of Maryville, Tennessee Location of Maryville, Tennessee Maryville is a town/city and the governmental center of county of Blount County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.
Maryville's populace was 27,465 at the 2010 census. It is encompassed in the Knoxville Metropolitan Area.
Maryville has received a number of accolades for its character of life.
Maryville is a short distance from prominent tourist destinations such as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Dollywood, Gatlinburg, and Pigeon Forge.
6.3 Maryville College In 1785, Revolutionary War veteran John Craig assembled a wooden palisade enclosing cabins at what is known as Fort Craig (or Craig's Station) at present-day Maryville.
Incorporated as a town/city on July 11, 1795, the settlement was titled in honor of Mary Grainger Blount, wife of the territorial governor William Blount.
The family of Sam Houston moved to Maryville from Virginia in 1808, when Houston was 15.
After his return to Maryville about 1811, Houston started a one-room schoolhouse.
Sam Houston Schoolhouse in Maryville Maryville was a center of abolitionist activeness throughout the early 19th-century; it was generated mostly by the Society of Friends, which had a mostly large existence in Blount County.
Anderson, the founder of Maryville College. When Tennessee voted on the Ordinance of Secession in 1861, only 24% of Blount Countians voted in favor of seceding from the Union. Although staunchly pro-Union throughout the Civil War, Maryville was not liberated by federal troops until May 1864.
In the Reconstruction Era Maryville became a core of Radical Republican activeness for East Tennessee.
Its small-town Union League provided a lively forum for political discussion, and the Freedmen's Normal Institute was established on the present-day site of Maryville High School.
In the 1970s, after a several department stores and other retailers moved from the downtown region to Alcoa's Midland shopping center, the town/city spent $10 million on a renewal universal called "Now Town".
Senator Lamar Alexander was born in Maryville in 1940.
He ran unsuccessful campaigns for president in 1996 and 2000, both times announcing his candidacy for the Republican Party from his hometown of Maryville.
In 2016, an LGBT center opened in Maryville.
Maryville is positioned in north-central Blount County at 35 44 59 N 83 58 33 W (35.749857, -83.975805), in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Chilhowee's easterly flank known locally as "The Three Sisters" is visible from almost anywhere in the city, and dominates the southern horizon along US-321 between Maryville and Walland.
Maryville is bordered on the north by Maryville's twin city, Alcoa.
A number of small suburbs including Wildwood, Ellejoy, and Clover Hill surround Maryville to the east and west.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.8 square miles (43.5 km2), all land. Route 321, continues to Lenoir City to the west and Townsend and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to the east.
Route 129 and part of the major route between Maryville and Knoxville Morganton Road, which runs alongside to US-411, joins Maryville to Greenback and the old Morganton region to west.
Maryville Alcoa Greenway In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.2% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 20 to 24, 24.2% from 25 to 44, 24.4% from 45 to 64, and 17.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
According to Maryville's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the region were: 4 Blount County Schools 1,600 8 Maryville City Schools 630 13 City of Maryville 308 17 Maryville College 254 19 Alcoa City Schools 208 Maryville City Schools operates enhance schools.
Maryville High School Maryville Junior High School Maryville Christian School Maryville College Maryville is home to Maryville College, a private four-year liberal arts college.
The college is one of the fifty earliest universities in the United States and the twelfth earliest institution in the South. It is associated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Maryville College's mascot is the Scots.
The East Tennessee Japanese School ( Isuto Teneshi Hoshu Jugyo Ko), a weekend Japanese education program, holds its classes at Maryville College. senator from Tennessee; former Governor of Tennessee, Secretary of Education and Republican presidential candidate Anderson, founder of Maryville College Randall Cobb, NFL football player (born in Maryville, but played high school football at Alcoa) Sam Houston, Texas revolutionary, politician and governor of Tennessee and Texas; lived in Maryville intermittently c.
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State and County Quick - Facts, U.S.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Maryville city, Tennessee".
Walter Durham, "Frontier Stations", Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, accessed 27 August 2010 Inez Burns, History of Blount County, Tennessee: From War Trail to Landing Strip, 1795-1955 (Nashville: Benson Print Co., 1957), 2-30.
Durwood Dunn, Cades Cove: The Life and Death of an Appalachian Community, Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1988, 125.
Robbie Jones, The Historic Architecture of Sevier County, Tennessee, Sevierville, TN: Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1997, p.
"Maryville Historic Timeline", City of Maryville Maryville, Tennessee.
"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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Maryville College website.
" ( East Tennessee Japanese School ) c/o Maryville College 502 E.
Lamar Alexander Parkway , Maryville , TN 37804" Robert Booker, Charles Warner Cansler, Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2009.
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