Sevierville - Tennessee - 4K Downtown Drive

Sunday afternoon drive in and around the downtown area of Sevierville TN.
Filmed: June 2021
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From Wikipedia:
Sevierville /səˈvɪərvɪl/ is a city in and the county seat of Sevier County, Tennessee, located in eastern Tennessee. The population was 14,807 at the 2010 United States Census and 17,117 according to the 2019 census estimate.
Sevierville recovered quickly from the war, with a number of new houses and businesses being built in the 1870s. Two members of the town's African-American community - house builder Lewis Buckner (1856-1924) and brickmason Isaac Dockery (1832-1910) - played a prominent role in Sevierville's post-war construction boom. Buckner designed a number of houses in the Sevierville area over a 40-year period, 15 of which are still standing. Dockery's contributions include the New Salem Baptist Church in 1886 and the Sevier County Courthouse in 1896, both of which are still standing.
By the 1880s, Sevierville was growing rapidly, as was the population of Sevier County. In 1887, the town had four general stores, two groceries, a jeweler, a sawmill, and two hotels. It was also home to the Sevierville Lumber Company, which was established to harvest trees in the area. Tourists also started to trickle into Sevier County, drawn by the reported health-restoring qualities of mountain springs. Resorts sprang up throughout the county, with Seaton Springs and Henderson Springs located just south of Sevierville.
In 1892, a vigilante group known as the "Whitecaps" was formed to rid Sevier County of vice. The group wore white hoods to conceal their identities and used Ku Klux Klan-like tactics, although they were not considered a racist entity. The Whitecaps initially threatened women accused of prostitution, and the group began launching nightly attacks in the mid-1890s. In 1893, Sevierville physician J.A. Henderson took over an anti-Whitecap group, which he renamed the "Blue Bills." The two vigilante groups clashed at Henderson Springs in 1894, with deaths occurring on both sides. In 1896, the Whitecaps' murder of a young Sevierville couple led to widespread outrage, and in 1898, the Tennessee State Legislature banned "extra-legal conspiracies" and vigilante groups. Due to this measure and the efforts of Sevier County Deputy Sheriff Thomas Davis, the Whitecaps largely vanished by the end of the century.
After a fire destroyed much of the downtown area in 1900, businesses shifted from the old town square at Main Street to the new Sevierville Commercial District, viz. Court Avenue and Bruce Street, which centered on the new courthouse. The town incorporated in 1901.
In 1910, Indiana entrepreneur William J. Oliver finished work on the Knoxville, Sevierville and Eastern Railroad, which was Sevier County's first standard gauge rail line. Known as the Smoky Mountain Railroad, this line offered passenger service between Knoxville and Sevierville until 1962.
With the opening of Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934, tens of thousands of tourists began passing through Sevierville, which was situated about halfway between the park and Knoxville. U.S. 441, initially known as Smoky Mountain Highway, was completed to Sevierville in 1934 and later extended to North Carolina.
Entertainer Dolly Parton was born in Sevierville in 1946. Her Parton ancestors had migrated to Greenbrier sometime around 1850 and later moved to Locust Ridge (near Pittman Center), where Parton was born, after the establishment of the national park. In more recent years, the town erected a statue of Parton on the lawn of the courthouse and named Dolly Parton Parkway after her.
Much of Cormac McCarthy's 1973 novel Child of God takes place in Sevierville and the surrounding area.

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One of my favorite small-towns. The downtown is perfectly sized!

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Nice video Tennessee Mike you've done a great job covering these Tennessee cities

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Thanks 👍

[@andreabrown3302]

I will be making a trip there in February, and I never drove in the mountains 🗻 ⛰️ so I'm just trying to see what it will be like! Thank you for making this video.

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Have fun!

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Great video!

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I used to live on Love Rd.

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I was just there 2 weeks ago

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Justice for Tyre Nichols of Memphis.. Police and Sheriff Departments need quality accountability to improve Community policing and community Trust. Sevier County Sheriff department is the epitome of the Good Old Boy network.. SCHEDULING ORDER: Jury Trial set for 8/1/2023 09:00 AM in Courtroom 4 - Knoxville before District Judge Thomas A Varlan. Final Pretrial Conference set for 7/25/2023 01:30 PM in Courtroom 4 - Knoxville before District Judge Thomas A Varlan.Signed by District Judge Thomas A Varlan on 6/17/22. (ABF) Who are the John Doe deputies that Mayor Water and Sheriff Hodges are hiding. Parker Zaitz is a deputy named in the lawsuit. Copeland said the conduct of all six deputies was "unjustified, unreasonable and grossly disproportionate. The "use of excessive and unreasonable force" was applied by deputies during his arrest, Copeland said. Justice for Tyre Nichols of Memphis.. Police and Sheriff Departments need quality accountability to improve Community policing and community Trust.