Test Your Knowledge of Jefferson County History (Quizzes are updated periodically.)

All answers can be found somewhere in the Jefferson County TNGenWeb site. Would you like to create a quiz or submit questions of general interest? Contact Billie McNamara for submission instructions. 1. Jefferson County formed from what counties? Washington and Sullivan Washington and Greene Hawkins and Greene Hawkins and Knox 2. What river is one of the current boundaries of Jefferson County? Nolichucky Clinch Pigeon Holston 3. What was the original name of White Pine? Mossy Creek Dandridge Crossing Leadvale Witt 4. In what year did the first pioneers settle in Dandridge? 1783 1796 1806 1814 5. What was the name of the first railroad that served Jefferson County? Clinchfield & Ohio Southern Knoxville, Abingdon & Bristol East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia 6. Jefferson County was the site of an important Civil War bridge burning.  Where did it occur? Dandridge Mossy Creek Strawberry Plains Swann's Point 7. Who is recognized as the premier Jefferson County historian? Jean Bible Robert Jarnigan Estle Muncy Reuel Pritchett 8. The first church in Jefferson County was affiliated with what religion? Presbyterian Baptist Methodist Lutheran 9.  What was the name of the first school mentioned in Jefferson County Court Minutes?   McBee's   Moon's   Moore's   Mynatt's 10. The earliest-identified mining activity in Jefferson County was for what mineral? Iron Lead Zinc Limestone Script by: Bill Cava

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