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Loudon County Tennessee
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Loudon County
Loudon County was formed on May 27, 1870, from portions of Roane, Monroe and Blount counties.
Originally, it was named Christiana County, but a few days later the name was changed to Loudon in honor of nearby colonial-era Fort Loudoun, which was named for John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun and a commander of British forces during the French and Indian Wars.
Fort Loudoun was constructed by the British near modern Vonore in 1756, and was destroyed by the Cherokee four years later.

One of the earliest American settlements in what is now Loudon County was a river port and ferry known as Morganton, once located on the banks of the Little Tennessee River near modern Greenback. Morganton thrived during the early 19th century, but declined with the rise of the railroad in the latter half of the century. The town's remnants were inundated by Tellico Lake in the 1970s.

Bussell Island, at the mouth of the Little Tennessee River, was inhabited by Native Americans for several thousand years before the arrival of the region's first European settlers.

The Overhill Cherokee village of Mialoquo was located along the Little Tennessee near modern Tellico Village.

Lenoir City is rooted in a plantation established by William Ballard Lenoir in 1810.
The town of Loudon began as a ferry and later steamboat stop known as Blair's Ferry, established by James Blair and his brother-in-law, John Hudson Carmichael, in the 1810s. The town changed its name to "Loudon" during the early 1850s, when it expanded following the arrival of the railroad.

Cities
Greenback ~ Lenoir City ~ Loudon ~ Philadelphia
Towns
Farragut (partial)
Census-designated place
Tellico Village
Unincorporated Communities
Dixie Lee Junction ~ Unitia