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Elizabethton

Tennessee, United States
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Elizabethton, city, seat (1796) of Carter county, northeastern Tennessee, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Doe and Watauga rivers, in the southern Appalachian Mountains, about 105 miles (170 km) northeast of Knoxville and just east of Johnson City. Situated in the valley of the Watauga, it is one of the region’s oldest settlements, where a compact for self-government (the Watauga Association) was made in 1772. The community was named for the wife of...

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