Editing Elizabethton, Tennessee (section)

=== Tiptonville and the Battle of Franklin feud===

[[File:Samuel Tipton headstone Elizabethton.jpg|thumb|240px|Gravestone of Samuel Tipton, "Founder of Elizabethton", located at the Green Hill Cemetery (West Mill Street). Tipton donated the land for the town that would initially be known as Tiptonville within the [[State of Franklin]], and later as Elizabethton after Tennessee was admitted into the United States of America.]]Carter County was previously named "Wayne County" while briefly within the defeated State of Franklin (along with present-day [[Johnson County, Tennessee]], 1784–88).<ref name="jcedb.org" /> Samuel Tipton (1752−1833), a son of frontiersman and later State of Franklin independence opponent Colonel [[John Tipton (Tennessee frontiersman)|John Tipton]], had deeded the land on which the town Tiptonville was established on the banks of the Doe River near its confluence with the Watauga River then within Wayne County.<ref>[http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2A8X_SAMUAL_TIPTON Historical marker in downtown Elizabethton]. Accessed: January 26, 2013.</ref>

The February 1788 [[State of Franklin#Battle of Franklin|Battle of Franklin]] was fought between those aligned with Col. John Tipton and loyal to the area remaining within the authority of the State of North Carolina and the United States and the opposition aligned with Col. John Sevier who were seeking [[secession]] from the State of North Carolina as an independent [[State of Franklin]] under Spanish rule. The Battle of Franklin took place on a farm owned by Col. John Tipton (now known as the [[Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site]]) within the southern section of present-day [[Johnson City, Tennessee]].

Col. John Tipton would also later help to lead the effort of having Tennessee be admitted as the sixteenth state into the United States of America during 1796.<ref>[http://www.tipton-haynes.org/ Tipton-Haynes Historic Area - Home".]</ref>

Following the 1796 admittance of the State of Tennessee into the United States of America, Wayne County was renamed named as Carter County by the losers of the Battle of Franklin in honor of Landon Carter, who served both as Chairman of the Court of the Watauga Settlement (as defined by the articles of the Watauga Petition) and as [[State of Franklin|Speaker of the defunct State of Franklin Senate]].

Previously named "Tiptonville" in honor of Samuel Tipton while within the State of Franklin, the town was as the county seat of the newly minted Tennessee county of Carter was, likewise, renamed as "Elizabethton" by Landon Carter and David McNabb (who were members of a state committee to officially name the area that was appointed by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1796 to locate and name the county seat of Carter County) after their wives, Elizabeth MacLin Carter and Elizabeth McNabb.

The gravesite of Samuel Tipton, "Founder of Elizabethton", is located at the Green Hill Cemetery, found on the crest of West Mill Street and overlooking [[northeast by north]] toward the historic site of Fort Caswell (this location as recorded in the unpublished John Sevier notes of Wisconsin historian [[Lyman C. Draper]], and now more popularly known as Fort Watauga) <ref>Compton, Brian Patrick, "Revised History of Fort Watauga." (2005). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1103. Pages 25-26. http://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1103</ref> and the Watauga River.