Local coverage
Project conversations across Washington, Carter, and Unicoi counties and the Tri-Cities region.
Provider availability around Johnson City isn't fixed. The linked pages below each cover housing and site conditions for that specific community.
Jonesborough
Jonesborough was established in 1779 by the North Carolina General Assembly as the seat of Washington County, making it the oldest town in Tennessee -- founded seventeen years before Tennessee itself became a state.
Local planning notes →Elizabethton
Elizabethton sits beside Sycamore Shoals, where the Watauga Association drafted one of the first written constitutions of self-government on the American frontier in 1772, and where the Overmountain Men mustered in 1780 before marching to their Revolutionary War victory at Kings Mountain.
Local planning notes →Gray
Gray sits in the Boones Creek area of Washington County, part of what is recognized as the first permanent European settlement area in Tennessee, and now anchors the Tri-Cities' regional airport and fairgrounds.
Local planning notes →Boones Creek
Boones Creek, named for pioneer Daniel Boone, was the site of the first permanent European settlement in Tennessee and today is a Johnson City neighborhood in its own right, having been largely annexed from unincorporated Washington County.
Local planning notes →Unicoi
Unicoi County was carved out of Washington and Carter counties in 1875, its name drawn from a Cherokee word for the fog-draped Unaka Mountains that ring the county on its eastern edge.
Local planning notes →Erwin
Erwin became Unicoi County's seat and the headquarters of the Clinchfield Railroad after Johnson City -- the railroad's original choice -- could not secure enough land; construction crews finished the Erwin yards and shops in 1909, and full management moved there by 1915.
Local planning notes →Piney Flats
Piney Flats sits along the historic Watauga Valley settlement corridor in Sullivan and Washington counties, close to the Tri-Cities Regional Airport, and includes the Rocky Mount living-history site, one of the best-preserved late-eighteenth-century farmsteads in the region.
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