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History
The French established a trading post at Fort Prud'homme in 1682, with other forts built in subsequent years. The French ceded the land to Great Britain after 1763. The first permanent settlement in Tennessee was in the Watauga Valley by settlers from North Carolina and Virginia.[1]
References
- ↑ Christina K. Schaefer, Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 617. WorldCat (Other Libraries); FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998