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The Cities and communities of Sullivan County, Tennessee *
Bloomingdale, Blountville, Bluff City , Bristol , Buladeen
Carter
Fordtown
Piney Flats
Ruthton
Sadie, Sullivan Gardens
Winner
*This list of cities may not be complete. The list may contain towns, cities, villages, boroughs, townships, ghost towns and other populated places.
If you have information about any of these unlinked communities or have a community not listed at all, please send it to us and we will add a page for that community. Some of these places above may only be neighborhoods or local area names and are not listed with the census at all or just included in a larger surrounding designated census area..
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History:
The first permanent settlements in the area were about 1769. The county was established in 1779 by division from Washington County, and organized 7 February 1780. Sullivan County was named for Major General John Sullivan who was an officer in the Revolutionary War. Among his accomplishments are that he served in the Continental Congress, he was Attorney General of New Hampshire and served as president of New Hampshire. In 1786, a portion of Sullivan County was broken off to create Hawkins County.
A history page for Sullivan County
Blountville, the County Seat, was laid off as a town in 1795
Size: 413 Square Miles
Location: extreme northeast corner of Tennessee Genealogy
Genealogy:
US GenWeb Project Genealogy page
for Sullivan County
Lineages Genealogy page for Sullivan
County
Sullivan County Genealogical
Society
East Tennessee Historical Society
P.O. Box 1629
Knoxville TN 37901-1629
Email: ETHS@netstarcomm.net
Sullivan
County Public library
1655 State Route 37
Blountville TN 37617
Phone: 279-2714
Fax: 279-2836
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 510
Blountville, Tn 37617
Sullivan County
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