Kingsport, TN news and local guide

In the Battle of Kingsport on December 13, 1864, 300 Confederates under Colonel Richard Morgan held off a larger part of General George Stoneman's 5,500-man Union raiding force for nearly two days, until Union cavalry under Colonel Samuel Patton crossed at a ford 2.5 miles upstream and came in behind them. Morgan surrendered, with 18 dead and 84 taken prisoner. After the war the town's fortunes declined and it lost its charter. Re-chartered in 1917, Kingsport was an early American example of a garden city. Part of it was designed by the planner John Nolen of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his plan, which divided the town into areas for commerce, churches, housing and industry, earned it the nickname the Model City and gave it some of the earliest traffic circles in the country. Eastman Chemical Company, headquartered in Kingsport, occupies most of Long Island, and the Boone and Fort Patrick Henry dams were built on the South Fork in the 1950s. Sources Wikipedia: Kingsport, Tennessee