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Mountain City, Tennessee
Mountain City is a town in Johnson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,383 at the 2000 census and 2,531 at the 2010 census. Mountain City is the county seat of Johnson County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 It is the northeasternmost county seat in Tennessee.
==History==
When the first Euro-American explorers arrived in what is now the Mountain City area in the late 17th-century, well-worn Native American trails passed through the area. In 1949, workers at the Maymead quarry (just south of Mountain City) discovered a cave with several early Mississippian-era (ca. 1000 A.D.) burials inside. The Needham and Arthur expedition of 1673 is believed to have passed through the area, making use of the gap at Trade to the south. Explorer Daniel Boone made use of the same gap on an expedition to what is now Kentucky in 1769, and today part of the Daniel Boone Heritage Trail— which follows Boone's route— passes through Mountain City.〔Carolyn Sakowski, Touring the East Tennessee Backroads (Winson-Salem, N.C.: J.F. Blair, 1993), pp. 23-28, 40-41.〕
The first permanent Euro-American settlers arrived in the Mountain City area in the late 18th-century, among them Leonard Shoun and Revolutionary War veteran Alexander Doran. The area was initially part of Carter County, but the difficulty of reaching Elizabethton (the county seat) led to the creation of Johnson County in 1836.〔 That year, a county seat for the new county was platted on land purchased from William Vaught, and named Taylorsville after Colonel James P. Taylor.〔Jewell Hamm, (Johnson County ). ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', 2002. Retrieved: 16 June 2009.〕 The name of the town was changed to "Mountain City" in 1885, presumably at the urging of Roderick R. Butler (1827–1902), a prominent citizen and U.S. Congressman, who wanted the town's name to reflect its situation amidst one of the highest valleys in Tennessee. Butler's mansion, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, still stands near the center of the town.〔Mountain City Elementary School, (Roderick Random Butler ). Retrieved: 16 June 2009.〕
In May 1925, Mountain City was the site of a musical gathering, the first Mountain City Fiddlers Convention, that is considered a landmark event in the modern history of Appalachian traditional music.〔Bob L. Cox (2007), ''(Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman: An East Tennessee Old-time Music Pioneer and his Musical Family )'', University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 1-57233-566-1, ISBN 978-1-57233-566-0〕〔(A Fiddler's Convention in Mountain City ), Tennessee, from "History of Johnson County 1986" by Thomas W. Gentry, accessed January 9, 2010 on Clarence Ashley website, maintained by Scott Moore.〕
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