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By The Continuous News Desk
Published: February 24, 2009
By JEFF FLEMING
Kingsport’s settlement pre-dates the State of Tennessee by 21 years!
1761 - British Fort Robinson (later taken over by United States and renamed Fort Patrick Henry) was nearing completion
1775 - Land grant awarded to first Kingsport settler
1775-1783 - American Revolutionary War
1779 - Jonesborough founded
1779 - Sullivan County, NC (later TN) formally established
1784-1789 The Lost State of Franklin
1796 - Tennessee statehood from North Carolina
1822 - “Old” Kingsport incorporated
1861-1865 - American Civil War
1856 - City of Bristol incorporated
1869 - City of Johnson City incorporated
1914-1918 World War I
1917 - “New” Kingsport incorporated
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