Cocke County, Tennessee

Date: 9 Oct 1797 [unknown]
Location: Cocke County, Tennessee
Surnames/tags: tennessee us_history appalachia

Welcome to Cocke County, Tennessee!

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Contents 1 Project Purpose 1.1 How to Join the Tennessee Project 1.2 How to Join the Appalachia Project 2 Ongoing List of Things to Do 3 Cocke County History 3.1 Historic Sites/Landmarks 3.2 Cocke County Notables 4 Geography 4.1 Adjacent counties 4.2 Protected areas 5 Government Offices 6 Resources and Records 6.1 On WikiTree 6.2 On the Internet 7 Communities 7.1 Cities 7.2 Towns 7.3 Unincorporated Communities 8 See also 9 Sources

Project Purpose

The purpose of this sub-project is to have a foundation for all things genealogy, and more, relating to Cocke County, Tennessee.

How to Join the Tennessee Project

1. See the main project page here for instructions on how to join.
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How to Join the Appalachia Project

1. See the main project page here for instructions on how to join.
2. Add Appalachia to your G2G tag feed.

Ongoing List of Things to Do

1. Add the county category to applicable profiles
2. Ensure Cocke County profiles are well-sourced
3. Work on connecting Cocke County profiles to the one tree
4. Church records of christenings, marriages and burials
5. Voter or citizenship rolls
6. Records of wills and estates
7. Records of slaveholders and enslaved persons
8. Land records
9. Tax lists
10. Muster lists for militia/military service
11. Add genealogy resources to this page
12. Add statewide resources to the main project page

Cocke County History

Established by an act of The Tennessee Genealogy Assembly on 7 Oct 1797 and named after William Cocke, one of the state's first US Senators. It was created from part of Jefferson County, Tennessee. It is located between the Great Smokey Mountains and the Appalachians.

Historic Sites/Landmarks

• Beechwood Hall
• Cocke County Courthouse
• Cocke County Memorial Building
• Conway Bridge
• Walter C. Cureton House
• Elm Hill
• English Mountain Fire Lookout Tower
• Leadvale Coaling Station and Cut Off
• Neas Farm
• O'Dell House
• Rhea-Mims Hotel
• Swaggerty Blockhouse
• Vinson House
• Yett-Ellison house

Cocke County Notables

Geography

The county has a total area of 443 square miles (1,150 km2), of which 435 square miles (1,130 km2) is land and 8.6 square miles (22 km2) (1.9%) is water, according to the US Census Bureau. Cocke County is part of East Tennessee, one of Tennesee's Three Grand Divisions. These divisions are not only geographic, but also cultural and defined in state law. Cocke County is also part of the South Central Region of Appalachia.

Adjacent counties

• Hamblen County - north
• Greene County - northeast
• Madison County, North Carolina (east)
• Haywood County, North Carolina (south)
• Sevier County - southwest
• Jefferson County northwest

Protected areas

National

1. Appalachian Trail (part)
   • The longest hiking only trail in the world.
2. Cherokee National Forest (part)
   • 11 National Forests are located within. They are:
     • Bald River Gorge Wilderness
     • Big Frog Wilderness
     • Big Laurel Branch Wilderness
     • Citico Creek Wilderness
     • Cohutta Wilderness
     • Gee Creek Wilderness
     • Joyce Kilmer Slickrock Wilderness
     • Little Frog Mountain Wilderness
     • Pond Mountain Wilderness
     • Sampson Mountain Wilderness
     • Unaka Mountain Wilderness
3. Foothills Parkway
   • The oldest unfinished highway project in Tennessee.
4. Great Smokey Mountains National Park
   • An American National Park that straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain.

State

1. Rankin Wildlife Management Area (part)
2. Martha Sundquist State Forest
   • A Tennessee State Forest named in honor of former Tennessee governor Don Sundquist's wife, Martha Sundquist.

Government Offices

• Cocke County website

Resources and Records

On WikiTree

1. Cocke County Cemeteries
2. Revolutionary Patriots of Cocke County

On the Internet

• Brief History of the Synod of Tennessee
• Elijah Fox pension info
• 1820 Cocke County Manufacturers Census
• Cocke County Genealogy on FamilySearch
• Cocke County Genealogy Fact Sheets
• Cocke County Genealogy Trails
• Cocke County USGenWeb
• Cocke County USGenWeb Archives

Communities

Cities

• Newport county seat

Towns

• Parrottsville

Unincorporated Communities

• Allen Grove
• Baltimore
• Briar Thicket
• Bridgeport
• Bybee
• Cosby
• Del Rio
• Hartford
• Liberty Hill
• Midway
• Tom Town
• Wasp

See also

• Cocke County on Wikipedia

Sources