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McMinn was a militia commander during the Revolutionary War, a member of the territorial legislature, speaker of the state senate, and eventually governor of the state of Tennessee.
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" This transaction was known as the Hiwassee Purchase and the lands were to be later known as Hamilton, Bradley, McMinn and Monroe counties of which all were organized in 1819.
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McMinn County was created in 1819 from Indian lands and was named in honor of Joseph McMinn ( 1758 – 1824 ).
The store was operated by Randolph James until about the turn of the 20th century when it and the McMinn Mill were destroyed by fire.
It was named after U. S. President James Buchanan, the first person for whom Postmaster Washington A. McMinn voted.
This factory was built by Paschal McMinn, father of the late Willis McMinn who established the first barbershop in town.
McMinn County was organized on November 13, 1819 at the home of John Walker in what is now Calhoun.
Wool set up his headquarters at the Bridges Hotel, which was located across the street from the McMinn County Courthouse.
McMinn County was divided during the American Civil War.
The Calhoun area was settled by John Walker ( c. 1770-1834 ), a part-Cherokee grandson of Nancy Ward and a prominent figure in the formation of McMinn County.
McMinn County was organized at Walker's house that same year.
A point midway between these cities was needed to service cars and change crews, and at the end of 1904, land had been purchased in McMinn County to serve as this site and the city of Etowah was planned.
It was named after Joseph McMinn, a governor of Tennessee, in 1810.
First settled in 1835 by John McMinn Stambaugh and named McMinn Chapel, the area was settled by Granville Stinebaugh, who named it after Nevada Territory ( the local pronunciation, though, has the second syllable as " vay ").
In November 1818, on the eve of the General Council meeting with the US Indian agent Joseph McMinn, who dealt with the Cherokee, Ross was elevated to the presidency of the National Committee.
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Halliday, Dickson, Houliston and McMinn played for home town club, Queen of the South during their careers.
McMinn apparently posed for the portrait during his visit to the city to deliver the newly-written Tennessee state constitution to the federal government.
McMinn and War
After the Civil War, the railroad lured business opportunists to McMinn County.
In 1946, several McMinn County World War II veterans ran for local office in hopes of removing a county government deemed corrupt.
The Battle of Athens ( sometimes called the McMinn County War ) was a rebellion led by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local government in August 1946.
After World War II ended, some 3, 000 military veterans ( constituting about 10 percent of the county population ) had returned to McMinn County.
* The 1992 made-for-television movie An American Story ( produced by the Hallmark Hall of Fame ) was based upon the McMinn County War but set in a Texas town in 1945.
* The Battle of Athens-also known as the McMinn County War.
McMinn and territorial
In 1792, Southwest Territory governor William Blount appointed McMinn justice of the peace for Hawkins County, and McMinn represented Hawkins County in the territorial legislature from 1794 to 1796.
McMinn and legislature
Following the Panic of 1819, McMinn called a joint session of the state legislature in June 1820, which voted to establish a state bank that would provide low-interest loans.
McMinn and speaker
In 1815, McMinn ran for governor against four other prominent state politicians: Senator Jesse Wharton, Congressman Robert Weakley, former speaker of the state house Robert Foster, and fellow state constitutional convention delegate Thomas Henderson.
McMinn and state
McMinn County is a county located in the U. S. state of Tennessee.
Sweetwater is a city in Monroe and McMinn counties in the U. S. state of Tennessee, and the most populous city in Monroe County.
McMinn was a delegate to the 1796 constitutional convention and helped write the state constitution that came into effect when Tennessee was admitted to the Union on June 1, 1796.
McMinn and governor
* Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee ( d. 1824 )
Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee from 1815 to 1821, spent the last few years of his life in Calhoun, and is buried in the Shiloh Presbyterian Cemetery.
While governor, McMinn concentrated on peaceful relationships with Native Americans in order to ease the way for more white settlement, particularly to the west.
McMinn and Tennessee
* McMinn County, Tennessee ( East )
McMinn died on October 17, 1824, and is buried at Shiloh Presbyterian Cemetery, Calhoun, Tennessee.
* National Register of Historic Places listings in McMinn County, Tennessee
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Athens is a city in McMinn County, Tennessee, United States.
* JaJuan Smith-basketball player for the University of Tennessee, played at McMinn County High School
Category: Populated places in McMinn County, Tennessee
Calhoun is a town in McMinn County, Tennessee, United States.
In 1819, Walker helped negotiate the Calhoun Treaty, in which the Cherokee ceded the remaining lands between the Little Tennessee River and the Hiwassee River, including what is now McMinn County.
Category: Populated places in McMinn County, Tennessee
Englewood is a town in McMinn County, Tennessee, United States.
Category: Populated places in McMinn County, Tennessee
Etowah is a city in McMinn County, Tennessee, United States.
Niota is a city in McMinn County, Tennessee, United States.
Category: Populated places in McMinn County, Tennessee
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