Editing Greene County, Tennessee (section)

==History==
{{See also|Maden Hall Farm}}
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Greene County developed from the "Nolichucky settlement," established by pioneer Jacob Brown on land leased in the early 1770s from the [[Cherokee people]]. The Nolichucky settlement was aligned with the [[Watauga Association|Watauga settlement]], centered in modern [[Elizabethton, Tennessee|Elizabethton]].

After the United States became independent, Greene County was formed in 1783 from the original [[Washington County, Tennessee|Washington County, North Carolina]], part of the former [[Washington District, North Carolina|Washington District]]. The county is named for Major General [[Nathanael Greene]]<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA143 | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=143}}</ref> (1742-1786), a major general in the [[Continental Army]] from [[Rhode Island]]. [[John Crockett (frontiersman)|John Crockett]], father of [[Davy Crockett]], and his wife settled in the county near [[Limestone, Tennessee|Limestone]]. Davy Crockett was born there in 1786. At the time, the area was part of the extra-legal state [[State of Franklin|Franklin]].

Greene County is the home of [[Tusculum College]], the oldest [[college]] in Tennessee; the state's oldest [[Methodist]] congregation (the Ebenezer Methodist Church, near Chuckey), and the state's second oldest continuously cultivated farm (Elmwood Farm, part of the [[Earnest Farms Historic District]]). [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] veteran, and state legislator, [[Joseph Hardin, Sr.|Col. Joseph Hardin]] made Greene County his home for a period of time, serving as [[justice of the peace]] and as one of the original trustees of Tusculum (then Greeneville) College.

As with yeomen farmers in much of East Tennessee, those in Greene County were generally Unionist and opposed to secession on the eve of the Civil War. In Tennessee's Ordinance of Secession referendum on June 8, 1861, Greene Countians voted against secession by a vote of 2,691 to 744.<ref>Oliver Perry Temple, [https://books.google.com/books?id=g8xYAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22The+detailed+vote+of+the+several+counties+was+as+follows%22&pg=PA199 ''East Tennessee and the Civil War''], (R. Clarke Company, 1899), p. 199.</ref>  Following the vote (the call for secession was passed statewide), the second session of the [[East Tennessee Convention]] convened in Greeneville. It called for a separate, Union-aligned state to be formed in East Tennessee.

A railroad bridge near Mosheim was among those destroyed by the [[East Tennessee bridge burnings|East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy]] in November 1861. Several of the conspirators who had taken part in the burning of this bridge were later captured and executed by Confederate supporters, including Jacob Hensie, Henry Fry, Jacob and Henry Harmon, and noted local potter [[Christopher Haun|Alex Haun]].<ref>Temple, ''East Tennessee and Civil War'', pp. 370-406.</ref>