Elizabethton, TN
Local News
- Fried Chicken & Biscuits in Elizabethton, TN | Bojangles 1006 Overmountain Road, Elizabethton, TN — Bojangles
- Tracy Tanner-Harris Obituary (1969 - 2026) - Elizabethton, TN — Johnson City Press
- Former TCAT Elizabethton Employees Misappropriated More Than $1 Million — Comptroller of the Treasury (.gov)
- Man killed in Carter County officer-involved shooting identified — Elizabethton Star
- 2 former TCAT Elizabethton employees misappropriated more than $1M, officials say — WCYB
Official Local Resources
City of Elizabethton · Carter County · Tennessee.gov · Tennessee Driver Services
Elizabethton (/əˈlɪzəbɛθtən/) is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government (known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772) located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original Thirteen Colonies.
The city is also the historical site of the Transylvania Purchase (1775), a major muster site during the American Revolutionary War for both the Battle of Musgrove Mill (1780) and the Battle of Kings Mountain (1780). It was within the secessionist North Carolina “State of Franklin” territory (1784–1788).
The population of Elizabethton was enumerated at 14,546 during the 2020 census.