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66-534: McClung was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , to Matthew McClung and Martha Cunningham McClung, both of Scots-Irish descent. McClung later claimed that due to his mechanical aptitude, his father gave him an unfair amount of work on the family farm. In 1778, McClung ran away to Philadelphia where he found work as a clerk. His employer was impressed with McClung's penmanship and record-keeping ability, and McClung gradually accumulated over $ 1,000 in savings. He

132-603: A Not Guilty . Among the five defense lawyers, recruited by the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society , was U.S. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens , who had practiced law in Lancaster County since at least 1838. The oldest surviving dwelling of European settlers in the county is that of Mennonite Bishop Hans Herr , built in 1719. In 1989, Donald Kraybill counted 37 distinct religious bodies/organizations, with 289 congregations and 41,600 baptized members, among

198-653: A personal liberty law in 1847 that made it difficult for southerners to recover any enslaved persons who made their way into Pennsylvania. Lying just north of the Mason-Dixon line and bordered by the Susquehanna River , which had been a traditional route from the Chesapeake Bay watershed into the heart of what became Pennsylvania, Lancaster County was a significant destination of the Underground Railroad in

264-607: A province in the north of Ireland; Manheim was German, Lebanon came from the Bible, a basis of all the European cultures; and Earl was a translation of the German surname of Graf or Groff. Lancaster County's native son James Buchanan , a Democrat , was elected as the 15th President of the United States in 1856, the first Pennsylvania native to hold the presidency. His home Wheatland

330-486: A 3.3 magnitude earthquake was widely felt in the Susquehanna Valley but caused no damage to structures. The bog turtle was first discovered and identified in Lancaster County by botanist Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg , who discovered the turtle species while surveying the area's flora . The species was named Muhlenberg's tortoise in 1801, but renamed bog turtle, its present common name , in 1956. As of

396-537: A compromise in 1733, but Cresap ignored it and continued his raids. A deputy was sent to arrest him in 1734, and Cresap killed him at the door. The Pennsylvania governor demanded that Maryland arrest Cresap for murder; the Maryland governor instead commissioned him as a captain in the militia . In 1736, Cresap was finally arrested; he was jailed until 1737 when the King intervened. In 1750, a court decided that, by failing to develop

462-479: A further 4.97% of the population spoke Spanish. 39.8% were of German, 11.8% United States or American, 7.2% Irish and 5.7% English ancestry. Lancaster County Anabaptist community founded in c. 1760, has the world's largest Amish settlement, with 37,000 people in 220 church districts in 2017, or about 7% of the county's population. By 2021 the Amish population increased to almost 42,000. The Lancaster Amish affiliation

528-557: A rare ecosystem where toxic metals in the soil inhibit plant growth, resulting in the formation of natural grassland and savanna . These barrens include the New Texas Serpentine Barrens, privately owned land managed by The Nature Conservancy , and Rock Springs Nature Preserve, a publicly accessible preserve with hiking trails owned and managed by the Lancaster County Conservancy . Lancaster County leads

594-568: Is a small unnamed tributary of the West Branch of Brandywine Creek that rises in eastern Salisbury Township and is part of the Delaware River watershed). The major streams in the county (with percent area drained) are: Conestoga River and Little Conestoga Creek (31.42%); Pequea Creek (15.02%); Chiques Creek (or Chickies Creek , 12.07%); Cocalico Creek (11.25%); Octoraro Creek (10.74%); and Conowingo Creek (3.73%). Lancaster County

660-1094: Is home to Susquehannock State Park , located on 224 acres (91 ha) overlooking the Susquehanna River in Drumore Township . One of the three tracts comprising William Penn State Forest , the 10-acre (4.0 ha) Cornwall fire tower site, is located in northern Penn Township near the Lebanon County border. The site, with its 1923 fire tower, was acquired by the state in January 1935. There are six Pennsylvania State Game Lands for hunting , trapping , and fishing located in Lancaster County. They are numbers (with location and area): 46 (near Hopeland , 5,035 acres (2,038 ha)), 52 (near Morgantown, 1,447 acres (586 ha)), 136 (near Kirkwood, 91 acres (37 ha)), 156 (near Poplar Grove, 4,537 acres (1,836 ha)), 220 (near Reinholds, 96 acres (39 ha)), and 288 (near Martic Forge, 89 acres (36 ha)). The county's southern portion has some protected serpentine barrens ,

726-665: Is now operated as a house museum in Lancaster. Thaddeus Stevens , the noted Radical Republican , represented Lancaster County in the United States House of Representatives from 1849 to 1853 and from 1859 until his death in 1868. Stevens left a $ 50,000 (~$ 1,000,000 in 2023) bequest to establish an orphanage. This property eventually was developed as the state-owned Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology . Stevens and Buchanan were both buried in Lancaster. Pennsylvania passed its gradual abolition law in 1780. The law, which freed

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792-804: Is one of the earliest educational institutions in continuous operation in the United States. In addition to the Ephrata Cloister , the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) trace their beginnings to a 1767 meeting at the Isaac Long barn, near the hamlet of Oregon, in West Lampeter Township . The EUB, a German Methodist church, merged in 1968 with the traditionally English Methodist Episcopal Church to become

858-559: Is relatively liberal concerning the use of technologies compared to other Amish affiliations. Historically speaking, the Amish population in 1970 numbered only about 7,000; that climbed to about 12,400 by 1990 and 16,900 by 2000. It has doubled since then. Lancaster also hosts other Plain Anabaptist groups. As of 2000, there are about 3,000 Old Order Mennonites of the Groffdale Conference who drive black top buggies instead of

924-542: Is the 104th most populous metropolitan statistical area as of the 2020 census and the 102nd most populous primary statistical area in the United States as of the 2010 census. Lancaster County was the home of the final pre- American Civil War U.S. President, James Buchanan, a Democrat. Since the Civil War, however, Lancaster County has been a Republican stronghold. The GOP controls the vast majority of county and municipal elected offices in Lancaster County. Specifically,

990-473: Is water. Most of the county has a hot-summer humid continental climate ( Dfa ) and the hardiness zones are 6b and 7a. The most recent temperature averages show areas along the Susquehanna River and in the lower Conestoga Valley to have a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa .) Almost all of Lancaster County is in the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin , via the Susquehanna River watershed (the exception

1056-814: The Iroquoian -speaking Susquehannock , whose name was derived from the Lenape term for "Oyster River People". (The Lenape spoke an Algonquian language.) The English called them the Conestoga , after the name of their principal village, Gan'ochs'a'go'jat'ga ("Roof-place" or "town"), anglicized as "Conestoga." Other places occupied by the Susquehannock were Ka'ot'sch'ie'ra ("Place-crawfish"), where present-day Chickisalunga developed, and Gasch'guch'sa ("Great-fall-in-river"), now called Conewago Falls, Lancaster County. Other Native tribes, as well as early European settlers, considered

1122-759: The Lancaster, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area . With a population of 552,984 as of the 2020 U.S. census , the Lancaster, PA metropolitan area is the sixth most populous metropolitan area in Pennsylvania , after the Delaware Valley , Greater Pittsburgh , the Lehigh Valley , the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area , and the Wyoming Valley . On a national level, the Lancaster, PA metropolitan area

1188-710: The Reformed Mennonite Church who have retained the most conservative form of Plain dress of all Plain groups. There are 74 members of the Old German Baptist Brethren in Lancaster County. Some County residents speak with a Pennsylvania Dutch-influenced dialect. This is most common in the Lancaster, Lebanon, York, and Harrisburg areas, and incorporates influences from the Pennsylvania Dutch in dialect and in nomenclature. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has designated Lancaster County as

1254-492: The Scotch-Irish in the colonies). The area that became Lancaster County was part of William Penn 's 1681 charter. John Kennerly received the first recorded deed from Penn in 1691. Although Matthias Kreider was said to have been in the area as early as 1691, there is no evidence that any Europeans settled in Lancaster County before 1710. Lancaster County was part of Chester County, Pennsylvania , until May 10, 1729, when it

1320-536: The United Methodist Church . The first Jewish resident was Isaac Miranda , from the Sephardic Jewish community of London, who owned property before the town and county were organized in 1730. Ten years later several Jewish families had settled in the town; on February 3, 1747, a deed to Isaac Nunus Ricus (Henriques) and Joseph Simon was recorded, conveying 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) of land "in trust for

1386-676: The plain sects who are descendants of the Anabaptist Mennonite immigrants to Lancaster County. The Mennonite Central Committee in Akron supports relief in disasters and provides manpower and material to local organizations in relief efforts. The town of Lititz was originally planned as a closed community, founded early in the 1740s by members of the Moravian Church . The town eventually grew and welcomed its neighbors. The Moravian Church established Linden Hall School for Girls in 1746; it

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1452-493: The "Christiana Riot", "Christiana Resistance", the "Christiana Outrage", and the "Christiana Tragedy". The Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society helped provide defense for the suspects charged in the case. The event frightened slaveholders, as black men not only fought back but prevailed. Some feared this would inspire enslaved blacks and encourage rebelliousness. The case was prosecuted in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia under

1518-419: The 2010 census, there were 519,445 people. The population density was 561 people per square mile (217 people/km ). There were 193,602 households. Of that number 135,401 (69.9%) were families. Of those families, 120,112 (88.7%) had children under the age of 18. There were 202,952 housing units at an average density of 215 per square mile (83/km ). The average household size was 2.62 and the average family size

1584-589: The Chabad Jewish Enrichment Center, a branch of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, that focuses on serving the Jewish students of Franklin and Marshall College , as well serving the general community with specific religious services. The Lancaster Mikvah Association runs a mikveh on Degel Israel's property. Central PA Kosher Stand is operated at Dutch Wonderland , a seasonal amusement park. This area

1650-523: The English in Maryland and Virginia (and later, Pennsylvania). By the 1720s, the colonists considered the Conestoga Indians as a "civilized" or "friendly tribe," having been converted in large part to Christianity, speaking English as a second language, making brooms and baskets for sale, and naming children after their favorite neighbors. The outbreak of Pontiac's War in the summer of 1763, coupled with

1716-601: The Fugitive Slave Act, which required citizens to cooperate in the capture and return of fugitive slaves. The disturbance increased regional and racial tensions. In the North, it added to the push to abolish slavery. In September 1851, the grand jury returned a "true bill" (indictment) against 38 suspects, who were held at Moyamensing Prison in Philadelphia, awaiting trial. U.S. District Judge Robert Cooper Grier ruled that

1782-566: The Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country , is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 552,984, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most populous county. Its county seat is also Lancaster . Lancaster County comprises the Lancaster metropolitan statistical area . The county is part of the South Central region of

1848-624: The Kingston road. McClung lived in the house until his death in 1835. In 1816, McClung and his eldest surviving son, Matthew, formed Charles McClung and Son, which operated a general store in Knoxville. In 1828, both Charles and Matthew McClung helped establish the Knoxville Female Academy and donated land and money for the construction of the academy's school building. McClung died while vacationing at Harrodsburg Springs, Kentucky, in 1835, and

1914-522: The Susquehanna. In 1730, the Wright's Ferry services were licensed and officially begun. Starting in mid-1730, Thomas Cresap , acting as an agent of Lord Baltimore, began confiscating the newly settled farms near present-day Peach Bottom and Columbia, Pennsylvania , which at the time this was not named but was later called Wright's Ferry. Believing he controlled this land under his grant, Lord Baltimore wanted

1980-682: The Susquehannock a mighty nation, experts in war and trade. They were beaten only by the combined power of the Five Nation Iroquois Confederacy , after colonial Maryland withdrew its support. After 1675, the Susquehannock were totally absorbed by the Iroquois. A handful were settled at "New Conestoga," located along the south bank of the Conestoga River in Conestoga Township of the county. They helped staff an Iroquois consulate to

2046-494: The antebellum years. Many residents of German descent opposed slavery and cooperated in aiding fugitive slaves. Local Lancaster County resident Charles Spotts found 17 stations. They included hiding places with trap doors, hidden vaults, a cave, and one with a brick tunnel leading to Octoraro Creek , a tributary of the Susquehanna. As a wealthy Maryland wheat farmer, Edward Gorsuch had manumitted several slaves in their 20s. He allowed his slaves to work for cash elsewhere during

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2112-469: The areas along the waterways for thousands of years, and established varying cultures. Historic Native American tribes in the area at the time of European encounter included the Shawnee , Susquehannock , Gawanese , Lenape (or Delaware), and Nanticoke peoples , who were from different language families and had distinct cultures. Among the earliest recorded inhabitants of the Susquehanna River valley were

2178-533: The children of duly registered enslaved women at the age of twenty-eight, was a compromise between anti-slavery conviction and respect for white property rights. By the time the U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 , Pennsylvania was effectively a free state, although it did not formally abolish slavery completely until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment . It did, however, pass

2244-456: The county at the state or federal level hold state house seats anchored in Lancaster city and its closest-in suburbs. Lancaster County has only ever voted for a Democratic presidential nominee once since James Buchanan in 1856, a resident of the city of Lancaster. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson carried Lancaster County as part of his 44-state landslide, winning by 798 votes, less than a single percentage point. Franklin D. Roosevelt failed to carry

2310-433: The county during any of his four successful runs for president, coming within 4,000 votes of carrying it in his 46-state landslide of 1936. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first Democrat to garner 40 percent of the county's vote since Johnson, and the second since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Donald Trump earned 56 percent of the vote in both campaigns, with Joe Biden becoming the third Democrat in 80 years to win 40 percent of

2376-624: The county's vote. Alexander Bishop House The Alexander Bishop House , sometimes called the Donelson-Bishop House, is a historic home located in the Powell community of Knox County, Tennessee , United States. Built in 1793 by pioneer Stockley Donelson (1753–1804), the house is one of the oldest in Knox County. Alexander Bishop, the house's namesake, purchased it in 1856, and his descendants have maintained it ever since. In 1997,

2442-919: The early 1900s, McClung's descendants include railroad magnate Charles McClung McGhee and businessman Calvin Morgan McClung. The Lawson McGhee Library , the Frank H. McClung Museum , and the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection are among the institutions established by McClung's descendants. McClung's Statesview home still stands in West Knoxville. Another house once owned by McClung, the Alexander Bishop House , still stands in Powell , just north of Knoxville. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Lancaster County ( / ˈ l æ ŋ k ɪ s t ər / ; Pennsylvania Dutch : Lengeschder Kaundi ), sometimes nicknamed

2508-482: The early street names for the city (e.g., Front Street) were derived from street names in Philadelphia, where McClung had lived for several years. In 1792, McClung surveyed and planned what is now Kingston Pike from Knoxville to Campbell's Station ( Farragut ). The road was built to connect Knoxville with Fort Southwest Point , which was the eastern terminus of the Avery Trace . The road was originally 30 feet wide and

2574-471: The fort's builder. After the creation of the Southwest Territory in 1790, the territory's governor, William Blount , selected White's Fort as the territory's capital. James White set aside land adjacent to the fort for a new town, named "Knoxville" after Secretary of War Henry Knox . White employed McClung, who had acquired rudimentary knowledge of surveying while in Philadelphia, to draw up lots for

2640-469: The fugitive slaves who sought refuge in the area. Gorsuch obtained four warrants and organized four parties, which set out separately with federal marshals to recover his property—the four slaves. He was killed and others were wounded. While Gorsuch was legally entitled to recover his slaves under the Fugitive Slave Act , it is not clear who precipitated the violence. The incident was variously called

2706-608: The grey top buggies of the Amish in Lancaster County. Other buggy-using Old Order Mennonites in Lancaster County are subgroups of the Stauffer Mennonites with 283 baptized members and the Reidenbach Mennonites with 232. There are about 4,000 members of the car-driving Weaverland Old Order Mennonite Conference . A congregation of 83 members of the Old Order River Brethren lives there as well as 84 members of

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2772-523: The house to early Knoxville surveyor Charles McClung . McClung sold the house to Mrs. Charles Curd in 1825, and her family in turn sold the house to Bishop in 1856. Bishop moved to Texas in 1879, and the house was given to his son. This article about a property in Knox County, Tennessee on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Tennessee building- or structure-related article

2838-530: The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places as an example of late eighteenth-century architecture and for its role in the region's settlement. The house is a notable surviving example of a late eighteenth century double-pen long house. The oldest part of the house still contains several features common to early frontier houses, such as full dovetail joints , fireplaces with stone foundations, boxed stairs, and broad floorboards. The house

2904-497: The income from the lands. He believed he had a defensible claim established on the west bank of the Susquehanna River since 1721, and that his demesne and grant extended to forty degrees north. If he allowed Pennsylvanians to settle his lands without reacting, he believed, their squatting would constitute a counter claim. Cresap established a second ferry in the upper Conejohela downriver from John Wright's , near Peach Bottom. He demanded that settlers either move out or pay Maryland for

2970-454: The ineffective policies of the provincial government, aroused widespread settler suspicion and hatred against all Indians in the frontier counties, without distinguishing among hostile and friendly peoples. On December 14, 1763, the Paxton Boys , led by Matthew Smith and Capt. Lazarus Stewart , attacked Conestoga, killing the six Indians present, and burning all the houses. Officials sheltered

3036-399: The land that are mutually agreed upon by the grantees and the property owner. After ceding their development rights, landowners continue to manage and own their properties and may receive significant tax breaks. The conservation easement ensures that the land will remain available for agricultural use forever. Lancaster Farmland Trust is a private, non-profit organization that works closely with

3102-689: The land with settlers, Lord Baltimore had forfeited his rights to a twenty-mile (32 km) swath of land. In 1767, a new Pennsylvania-Maryland border was officially established by the Mason-Dixon line . The names of the original Lancaster County townships reflect the diverse national origins of settlers in the new county: two had Welsh names ( Caernarvon and Lampeter ), three had Native American names ( Cocalico , Conestoga and Peshtank or Paxton), six were English ( Warwick , Lancaster , Martic , Sadsbury , Salisbury and Hempfield ); four were Irish ( Donegal , Drumore , Derry , and Leacock ), reflecting mostly Scots-Irish (or Ulster Scots ) from Ulster ,

3168-576: The men could be tried for treason . The only person actually tried was Castner Hanway, a European-American man. On November 15, 1851, he was tried for liberating slaves taken into custody by U.S. Marshal Kline, as well as for resisting arrest, conspiracy, and treason. Hanway's responsibility for the violent events was unclear. He was reported as one of the first on the scene where Gorsuch and others of his party were attacked, and he and his horse provided cover for Dickerson Gorsuch and Dr. Pearce, who were wounded. The jury deliberated 15 minutes before returning

3234-604: The nation in farmland preservation. Organizations such as the Lancaster Farmland Trust, the Lancaster County Agricultural Preservation Board, and multiple municipalities work in partnership with landowners to preserve their farms and way of life for future generations by placing a conservation easement on their property. A conservation easement restricts real estate development, commercial and industrial uses, and certain other activities on

3300-510: The new town, which were sold at auction on October 3, 1791. McClung's design consisted of a rectangular grid with the Tennessee River (then called the "Holston") as its southern boundary and First Creek as its eastern boundary. The grid's original northern boundary was the road now known as Church Avenue, and its original western boundary was the road now known as Walnut Street. This grid was divided into 64 .5-acre (2,000 m) lots. Most of

3366-457: The ratio of Republicans to Democrats in Lancaster County now stands at 1.8 Republicans to 1 Democrat, down from a 3–1 advantage for the Republicans in the late 1990s. Even with these gains, the county is still powerfully Republican downballot; the only real pockets of Democratic influence are in the city of Lancaster. Reflecting this, the only elected Democrats representing a significant portion of

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3432-467: The right-bank lands. Settlers believed they already had rights to these under Pennsylvania grants. Cresap drove off settlers by vandalizing farms and killing livestock; he pushed out settlers from southern York and Lancaster counties. He gave the abandoned lands to his followers. If a follower was arrested by Lancaster authorities, the Marylanders would break him out of the lockup. Lord Baltimore negotiated

3498-538: The row offices and all but one county commission seat are held by Republicans, and the GOP holds all but two state legislative seats covering the county. Republicans also hold a majority of registered voters in the county. In September 2008, the Democratic Party reached the benchmark of 100,000 registered voters for the first time in the county's history. The party had just 82,171 registered Democrats in 2004. As of 2008 ,

3564-469: The slow season. Upon finding some of his wheat missing, he thought his slaves had sold it to a local farmer. His slaves Noah Buley, Nelson Ford, George Ford, and Joshua Hammond, fearing his bad temper, fled across the Mason–Dixon line to the farm of William Parker , a mulatto free man and abolitionist who lived in Christiana, Pennsylvania . Parker, 29, was a member of the Lancaster Black Self-Protection Society and known to use violence to defend himself and

3630-410: The society of Jews settled in and about Lancaster," to be used as a place of burial. This cemetery is still used by Congregation Shaarai Shomayim; it is considered the nation's fourth-oldest Jewish cemetery. As of 2010, Lancaster County is home to three synagogues: the Orthodox Degel Israel; the Conservative Beth El; and the Reform Shaarai Shomayim. In 2003 Rabbi Elazar Green & Shira Green founded

3696-546: The southern border of the province and Lancaster County. Nine years of armed clashes accompanied the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute , which began soon after the 1730 establishment of Wright's Ferry across the Susquehanna River . Lord Baltimore believed that his grant to Maryland extended to the 40th parallel. This was about halfway between present-day Lancaster and the town of Willow Street, Pennsylvania . This line of demarcation would have resulted in Philadelphia being included in Maryland. New settlers began to cross

3762-512: The state. Lancaster County is a tourist destination with its Amish community being a major attraction. The ancestors of the Amish began to immigrate to colonial Pennsylvania in the early 18th century to take advantage of the religious freedom offered by William Penn , as well as the area's rich soil and mild climate. They were joined by French Huguenots fleeing the religious persecution of Louis XIV . There were also significant numbers of English, Welsh and Ulster Scots (also known as

3828-406: The tribe's fourteen survivors in protective custody in the county jail, but the Paxton Boys returned on December 27, broke into the jail, and massacred the remaining natives. The lack of effective government control and widespread sympathy in the frontier counties for the murderers meant they were never discovered or brought to justice. Pennsylvania had a longstanding dispute with Maryland about

3894-532: The vast Amish and Plain-Sect communities of Lancaster County to ensure their farms will retain their agricultural value. Together with the Lancaster County Agricultural Preserve Board, the county has preserved more than 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) of preserved farmland in the county—a first in the nation. Lancaster County lies on the general track of the Appalachian Mountains . As a result, residual seismic activity from ancient faulting occasionally produces minor earthquakes of magnitude 3 to 4. On December 27, 2008,

3960-410: Was 3.13. In the county, the population was spread out, with 24.8% under the age of 18 and 15.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38.2 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.60 males. 5.58% of the population and 8.37% of the children aged 5–17 reported speaking Pennsylvania Dutch , German, or Dutch at home, while

4026-440: Was also settled by French Huguenots , who had fled to England and then the colonies in the late 1600s and early 1700s to escape Catholic persecution in France. Isaac LeFèvre and a group of other Huguenots settled in the Pequea Creek area. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 984 square miles (2,550 km ), of which 944 square miles (2,440 km ) is land and 40 square miles (100 km ) (4.1%)

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4092-419: Was fired, however, after he was caught flirting with his employer's daughter. McClung subsequently returned home and used his earnings to help his parents make improvements to the family farm. In 1788 he departed again, heading southwestward through the Great Valley until he reached White's Fort (modern Knoxville) that same year. In 1790, he married Margaret White (1771–1827), daughter of James White ,

4158-413: Was initially buried in a private cemetery in Harrodsburg . In 1904, McClung's great-grandson, Lee McClung , had his remains reinterred in the family's plot in Knoxville's Old Gray Cemetery . For over a century after his death, McClung's descendants continued to play prominent roles in the cultural and economic affairs of Knoxville. Along with Lee McClung, who served as Treasurer of the United States in

4224-520: Was many years later widened to 50 feet. During the same period, McClung was appointed Knox County's first court clerk, a position he held until 1834. He was present at the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1796 and helped draft the state's initial constitution. That same year, he was elected major in the state's Hamilton District militia. In 1805, McClung hired prominent early Knoxville architect Thomas Hope to build his country home, Statesview , about 10 miles (16 km) west of Knoxville, just off

4290-531: Was organized as the colony's fourth county. It was named after the city of Lancaster in the county of Lancashire in England, the native home of John Wright , an early settler. As settlement increased, six other counties were subsequently formed from territory directly taken, in all or in part, from Lancaster County: Berks (1752), Cumberland (1750), Dauphin (1785), Lebanon (1813), Northumberland (1772), and York (1749). Many other counties were in turn formed from these six. Indigenous peoples had occupied

4356-472: Was originally oriented toward old Jacksboro Pike, which passed through the area roughly along what is now Pedigo Road. Sometime after 1825, the house was combined with an adjacent log house. The clapboard siding was added by Bishop during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Stockley Donelson , the house's builder, was the son of Middle Tennessee pioneer John Donelson , and brother of Rachel Jackson , wife of Andrew Jackson . In 1796, Donelson sold

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