About Kingsport, Tennessee

Kingsport is a city of 55,442 people in Sullivan County, where the Holston River's North Fork and South Fork join. In 1787 the place was called Salt Lick, after an ancient mineral lick, and pioneers bound for Kentucky on the Wilderness Road gathered here before setting out. The town was chartered in 1822 and grew into a busy river port, sending barges loaded with goods from the countryside down to Knoxville. Hard times after the Civil War cost Kingsport its charter.

The town stayed a country village until 1909, when the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway came through the Holston Valley. George L. Carter of Hillsville, Virginia, who led the railroad, had seen the chance for an industrial city here as early as 1906. Money troubles forced him to sell around 1914 to New York investors John B. Dennis and Blair and Company. Dennis formed the Kingsport Improvement Corporation, with Carter's brother-in-law J. Fred Johnson as its chief promoter, and in 1917 the new city was chartered with one of the first city manager governments.

“Kingsport was the first economically diversified, professionally planned, and privately financed city in twentieth-century America.”
Tennessee Encyclopedia
  • A two-day stand in 1864In December 1864, Major General George Stoneman led over 5,500 Union troops from Knoxville to strike Virginia's salt works at Saltville, lead works at Wytheville and iron works at Marion. At Kingsport, Colonel Richard Morgan's 300 Confederates held them at the Holston River for nearly two days. Then Union Colonel Samuel Patton's cavalry crossed a ford 2.5 miles north and got behind them. Cold, outnumbered and flanked, Morgan surrendered; 18 died and 84 went to Knoxville as prisoners.
  • Named for William KingThe name grew out of King's Port, after King's Boat Yard on the Holston, the head of navigation for the whole Tennessee Valley. William King built the Netherland Inn in 1802 as a boatyard for shipping salt. The Netherland family bought it in 1818 and ran it as an inn and tavern. Now a museum, it joined the National Register in 1969, and a log cabin on its grounds sheltered Daniel Boone and his family from 1773 to 1775.
  • The Model City planDennis and Johnson hired John Nolen's firm of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to lay out the city, and Lola Anderson, later Mrs. John B. Dennis, to plan its landscaping and gardens. The plan gave commerce, churches, housing and industry their own districts and saved most of the riverfront for factories. It also gave Kingsport some of the first traffic circles in the United States, and its school system followed a model from Columbia University.
  • The Santa Train since 1943In 1943, during World War II, a group of Kingsport businessmen teamed up with the Clinchfield Railroad to lift people's spirits. Their Santa Train still runs each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, now operated by CSX. It starts in Kentucky and makes its last stop in Kingsport, and volunteers give children along the way toys, backpacks and winter clothes.
  • Hometown of Pal's since 1956Pal's Sudden Service opened its first restaurant in 1956 and is still based in Kingsport. In 2001 it became the first restaurant company to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Its owners, Pal and Sharon Barger, sponsored Pal's Roundhouse, home of the Kingsport Carousel, which 300 local volunteers finished in 2015 on a refurbished 1956 Allan Herschell frame.

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Names on the Kingsport map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks45

  • Allandale
  • Amersham
  • Applewalk Park
  • Bays Cove
  • Beartown
  • Beechcliff Estates
  • Beechwood Village
  • Bloomington Heights
  • Blue Ridge Estates
  • Borden Village
  • Brairwood Acres
  • Cherokee Village
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  • Cliffside
  • Deerfield
  • Fair Acres
  • Fort Robinson
  • Fox Fire
  • Fox Run
  • Gibsontown
  • Green Acres
  • Greenfields
  • Gunnings
  • Hemlock
  • Hemlock Park
  • Holston Hills
  • Huntington Hills
  • Lake Park
  • Lewis Lane
  • Litz Manor
  • Long Island
  • Lynn Garden
  • Midfields
  • Morrison City
  • Preston Forest
  • Preston Woods
  • Quail Creek
  • Ridgefields
  • Rock Springs
  • Rotherwood
  • Rotherwood Hills
  • Skyview Estates
  • Summer Hills
  • Sunset Hills
  • Thomas Heights
  • Vernon Heights

Streets and roads173

  • South Wilcox Drive
  • West Industry Drive
  • Sullivan Gardens Parkway
  • Fort Henry Drive
  • East Center Street
  • Rock Springs Road
  • Memorial Boulevard
  • East Stone Drive
  • West Stone Drive
  • Lynn Garden Drive
  • Airport Parkway
  • East Sullivan Street
  • Fairview Avenue
  • Rocky Branch Road
  • Bays Mountain Park Road
  • Cooks Valley Road
  • Moreland Drive
  • Orebank Road
  • Riverport Road
  • Fordtown Road
  • Mitchell Road
  • Fall Creek Road
  • Shipley Ferry Road
  • Tri-Cities Crossing
  • Meadow Lane
  • Skyland Drive
  • Lebanon Road
  • Virgil Avenue
  • Blakley Drive
  • New Beason Well Road
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  • Golf Ridge Drive
  • Riverside Drive
  • Union Street
  • Reservoir Road
  • Lynn Road
  • Tranbarger Drive
  • Fort Robinson Drive
  • Wildwood Drive
  • Manor Drive
  • Ashley Street
  • Stratford Road
  • Foothills Road
  • Warpath Drive
  • Glen Alpine Road
  • Sumpter Road
  • Fieldcrest Road
  • Garden Drive
  • Afton Street
  • Glory Road
  • Harbor Drive
  • Echo Avenue
  • Crest Road
  • Victory Lane
  • Hill Street
  • Millye Street
  • Clay Street
  • New Wilcox Drive
  • West Carters Valley Road
  • East Industry Drive
  • Clinchfield Street
  • Bloomingdale Pike
  • West Sullivan Street
  • North Eastman Road
  • Granby Road
  • Kendrick Creek Road
  • Lamont Street
  • Eastern Star Road
  • Watauga Street
  • Cox Hollow Road
  • Hidden Acres Road
  • Edens View Road
  • Hemlock Park Drive
  • Linville Street
  • Central Avenue
  • Birchwood Road
  • Chesterfield Drive
  • Buckingham Court
  • Barnett Drive
  • Cleek Road
  • Snapps Ferry Road
  • Lake Street
  • Windridge Drive
  • Highpoint Avenue
  • Horse Creek Lane
  • Gustavis Avenue
  • Bays Ridge Road
  • Shady View Road
  • Bell Ridge Drive
  • Truxton Drive
  • Hull Drive
  • Catawba Lane
  • Lowell Drive
  • Norfolk Place
  • Louita Avenue
  • Morison Avenue
  • Aurawood Drive
  • Canterbury Drive
  • Warrior Falls Drive
  • Radio Tower Road
  • Diana Road
  • May Avenue
  • River Edge Drive
  • Sam Walton Drive
  • Park Drive
  • Wallace Alley Street
  • Wheatley Street
  • Second Street
  • Bell Road
  • Harris Street
  • East Avenue
  • Lamasa Drive
  • Fleenor Drive
  • Dunlap Road
  • Berry Street
  • Amy Avenue
  • Calton Hill
  • Kanan Drive
  • Welk Road
  • Netherland Inn Road
  • Lincoln Street
  • Brookside Drive
  • Idle Hour Road
  • Pendragon Road
  • Hermitage Drive
  • Gravely Road
  • Crown Circle
  • Westwind Drive
  • Myrtle Street
  • Suffolk Street
  • Bridwell Street
  • Willow Street
  • Parker Lane
  • East Ridge Road
  • Jennings Drive
  • Cliffside Road
  • Fain Avenue
  • Ridgeway Road
  • Wesley Road
  • Park Street
  • Beechnut Drive
  • Carolina Pottery Drive
  • Stapleton Drive
  • Riverbend Drive
  • Browder Road
  • Seaver Road
  • Rufus Road
  • 14th Street
  • Kite Street
  • Polk Street
  • University Boulevard
  • Meadowview Parkway
  • Circle Drive
  • Pinebrook Drive
  • Enterprise Place
  • Willowbrook Trce
  • Konnarock Road
  • Midland Drive
  • Tidewater Court
  • Shadyside Drive
  • Teasel Drive
  • Rustic Way
  • Spring Creek Wynd
  • Ashfield Drive
  • Celtic Court
  • Pickens Road
  • Washington Avenue
  • Rolling Private Drive
  • Eastley Court
  • Ramsey Avenue
  • Bowater Drive
  • Colonial View Road
  • Bond Drive
  • Union Hill Street

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