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Maryville: Sam Houston Schoolhouse Sam Houston Schoolhouse, Maryville, Tennessee, where he taught school.

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Tennessee, United States
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Maryville, city, seat (1795) of Blount county, eastern Tennessee, U.S., about 15 miles (25 km) south of Knoxville and a gateway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The settlement was founded in 1790 around Fort Craig (built in 1785). It was named for the wife of William Blount, governor of the Territory South of the Ohio River. A few miles northeast of the city is a restored log cabin (1794) where Sam Houston, who later...

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