Greene County, Tennessee

Date: About 1783
Surnames/tags: Tennessee Appalachia Greene County

Welcome to Greene County, Tennessee!

Contents 1 Project Purpose 2 How to Join the Tennessee Project 2.1 How to Join the Appalachia Project 3 Ongoing List of Things to Do 4 Greene County History 4.1 Historic Sites/Landmarks 4.2 Greene County Notables 5 Geography 5.1 Adjacent counties 5.2 Protected areas 6 Government Offices 7 Resources and Records 7.1 On WikiTree 7.2 On the Internet 8 Communities 8.1 Cities 8.2 Towns 8.3 Census-designated place 8.4 Unincorporated communities 9 Things to do/see 10 See also 11 Sources

Project Purpose

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

How to Join the Tennessee Project

1. See the main project page here for instructions on how to join.
2. Add (Tennessee) and (us_history) to your G2G tag feed.

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. Contributing to the main project page as needed
2. Church records of christenings, marriages and burials
3. Voter or citizenship rolls
4. Records of wills and deceased estates
5. Land tenure records
6. Tax lists - 1783 Greene County Tax List
7. Muster lists for militia service
8. Census records, indexed and uploaded
9. Records of slaveholders and enslaved persons

Greene County History

Daniel Kennedy and Waightstill Avery formed Greene County in 1783 by separating from Washington County. The name is in honor of Nathanael Greene, a commander in the Revolutionary War.^[1]

Historic Sites/Landmarks

Greene County Notables

Geography

Greene 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. Greene County is also part of the South Central Region of Appalachia.

Adjacent counties

Northwest		North Hawkins County	Northeast
West Hamblen County		Greene County, Tennessee		East Washington County
Southwest Cocke County		South Madison County, North Carolina	Southeast Unicoi County

Protected areas

Andrew Johnson National Cemetery Andrew Johnson National Historic Site Appalachian Trail (part) Cherokee National Forest (part)rotected x Are as Andrew Johnson National Cemetery Andrew Johnson National Historic Site Appalachian Trail (part) Cherokee National Forest (part) Bible Covered Bridge State Historic Site Joachim Bible Refuge Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park (part) Lick Creek Bottoms Wildlife Management Area Nolichucky Wildlife Management Area Rocky Fork State Park (part)

Government Offices

• Greene County government website

Resources and Records

On WikiTree

• Greene County Cemeteries

On the Internet

• Green County Genealogy on FamilySearch
• Greene County Genealogy Fact Sheets
• Greene County Genealogy Trails
• Greene County USGenWeb
• Greene County USGenWeb Archives
• Greene County Genealogical Society

Communities

Cities

• Tusculum

Towns

• Baileyton
• Greeneville (county seat)
• Mosheim

Census-designated place

• Fall Branch

Unincorporated communities

• Afton
• Camp Creek
• Cedar Creek
• Chuckey
• Cross Anchor
• DeBusk
• Grandview
• Horse Creek
• Jearoldstown
• Liberty Hill
• Limestone
• Midway
• Mohawk
• Newmansville
• Ottway
• Rheatown
• Romeo
• Saint James
• South Greene
• Warrensburg

Things to do/see

Genealogy Research at the T. Elmer Cox Genealogical & Historical Library

See also

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.greenecountytngov.com/greene-county-tennessee-history

• Greene County on Wikipedia

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