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What is today Blount
County was for many thousands of years Indian territory,
passed down to the Cherokee
tribe that claimed
the land upon the arrival of white settlers in the late 18th
century. Shortly thereafter, On July 11, 1795, Blount County
became the tenth county established in Tennessee, when the
Territorial Legislature voted to split adjacent Knox and
Jefferson counties. The new county was named for the governor
of the
state of Tennessee, William Blount, and its county seat,
Maryville, was named for his wife Mary Grainger Blount. This
establishment,
however, did little to settle the differences between white
immigrants and Cherokee natives, which was, for the most
part, not accomplished until an 1819 treaty.
Throughout its history
the boundaries of Blount County have been altered numerous
times, most notably in 1870 when a large
swath of western Blount was split into Loudon and portions
of other counties. Also, the establishment of the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park in 1936, while not affecting
the
territory of Blount County, has significantly impacted the
use of southeastern
Blount.
information from wikipedia.org
