- Music History·Sevier County
Dolly Parton Parkway
The stretch of US 411 running east out of Sevierville carries Dolly Parton's name, and she came home in October 1979 for the naming, playing a show at Sevier County High School on the evening of the s…
- Entertainment·Sevier County
Klondike Katie
The older of the two steam locomotives that haul passengers around the theme park at Pigeon Forge was built by Baldwin in Philadelphia in February 1943 for the United States Army, and was shipped to A…
- Military·Sevier County
The Battle Of Boyds Creek
On 16 December 1780 John Sevier's militia met a Cherokee force on Boyds Creek, west of what is now Sevierville, and won the fight with a trick. The Cherokee had struck the settlements that autumn whil…
- History·Sevier County
The Fire Of 1856
In March 1856 a fire took the Sevier County courthouse in Sevierville, the jail beside it, forty-one houses and most of the town's businesses, and with the courthouse went almost every county record w…
- History·Sevier County
The Forks Of Little Pigeon
Sevierville stands where the West Prong runs into the Little Pigeon River, and the settlement that grew at the junction was called the Forks of the Little Pigeon before it was called anything else. Is…
- Education·Sevier County
The Imagination Library
The Imagination Library began in 1995 as a Sevier County programme, run by the Dollywood Foundation from an office on Main Street in Sevierville, and for its first years it mailed free books to childr…
- Music History·Sevier County
The Locust Ridge Cabin
Dolly Parton was born in January 1946 in a cabin on the Little Pigeon River in Sevier County, the fourth of twelve children of Avie Lee and Robert Lee Parton, and the house the family kept through her…
- Film History·Sevier County
The Pines Theater
The building at the corner of Joy Street and Court Avenue in downtown Sevierville went up in 1928 as the Watson Motor Company, a car dealership built by J. B. Waters Senior. When civilian car and truc…
- History·Sevier County
The Unionist County
When Tennessee voted on separation on 8 June 1861, Sevier County went against it by 1,528 votes to 60, better than ninety-six percent, while the state as a whole voted to leave by more than two to one…