Editing Elizabethton, Tennessee (section)

====John Carter, Landon Carter, and the Carter Mansion====

Landon Carter was the son of early Carter County settler John Carter. John Carter's circa 1780 white frame home, known as the Carter Mansion, now serves as a tourist attraction and is part of [[Sycamore Shoals State Park]], although it is not at the park's main location. The oldest frame house in Tennessee, this former frontier plantation home is located on Broad Street Extension on the eastern side of town above the banks of the Watauga River. The property also contains a small Carter family cemetery. A landscape painting of a Virginia plantation that was discovered beneath layers of ancient paint covering the wall surface above a fireplace mantle suggests that John Carter may have been an illegitimate son of the wealthy Virginia plantation owner [[Robert Carter I|Robert "King" Carter]]<ref>{{cite web |title=State of Tennessee |url=http://www.state.tn.us/environment/tn_consv/archive/cartermansion.pdf |access-date=December 19, 2016}}</ref> and half-brother to Virginia plantation owner [[Landon Carter]].