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In 1819, the Cherokee signed the Calhoun Treaty, relinquishing what is now Monroe County to the United States.
The county itself was established shortly thereafter.
In 1890, the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railroad laid tracks through Monroe County.
A stopover known as Upton Station was established just beyond the railroad's Little Tennessee River crossing.
Three years later, an area doctor named Walter Kennedy applied for a post office for Upton Station.
When the postal service informed him that Upton Station had been taken, Kennedy chose the name " Vonore ", a combination of the German word von ( meaning " of ") and the English word " ore ", as Kennedy believed the town would become a mining town.
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