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A nice summary of early pioneer Kingsport and regional history:

The Holston River: From Long Island to the future capital. read.. "​Rivers functioned much like an early version of our modern interstate system, especially when they were navigable. Long Island (later King’s Port) in Sullivan County was considered the head of navigation for the Tennessee River system. It was a launching point for downstream exploration and settlement.

​Above Long Island, the geography changes dramatically. The Holston River cuts through the ridge-and-valley landscape, exposing high bluffs still visible today at Warriors’ Path State Park. After its final bend near today’s Fort Patrick Henry Dam, the river opens into a wide, flat valley at the foot of Bays Mountain. Opposite Long Island, this fertile basin became known as the Island Flats, located at the terminus of Island Road.

​Downstream into Hawkins County, the Holston became a series of broad, fertile bends that supported settlement but also carried danger. Before the Tennessee Valley Authority, seasonal flooding was part of life along the river. We have grown somewhat desensitized to that risk. For early settlers, the same river that served as a lifeline could also become a death sentence. In 1830, “river fever” — cholera — swept through families such as the McPeeters, Seawrights and Currys, erasing names from the pioneer record almost overnight.

​The river corridor connected diplomacy, migration and expansion. In March 1775, negotiations at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga produced the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, also known as the Transylvania Purchase. Through that agreement, Cherokee leaders consented to a vast land transaction that included much of present-day Kentucky and addressed access across the Appalachian frontier.

​With that agreement in place, Daniel Boone and a party of axmen began cutting what became known as the Wilderness Road on March 10, 1775, starting from Long Island of the Holston and pushing toward the Cumberland Gap and Kentucky. Boone’s presence underscores a larger point: The Holston corridor was never merely local. It was a launching point for continental expansion.

​Two years later, in the summer of 1777, negotiations at Long Island culminated in the Treaty of Long Island of Holston, often called Avery’s Treaty. It did not end frontier tension, but it did establish terms that brought a period of relative peace.
​Then, in 1779, the westward story of Tennessee took another consequential turn. James Robertson led an overland party from the Holston settlements toward the French Lick on the Cumberland River.

John Donelson soon followed by water, leading a flotilla down the Holston, Tennessee, Ohio and Cumberland rivers. Their destination became Fort Nashborough, the seed of modern Nashville and the Cumberland settlements of Middle Tennessee. Robertson became known as “the father of Middle Tennessee.”

​That journey reaches into national history through Andrew Jackson, who later came to Tennessee as a young lawyer, settled in the Nashville area, and married Rachel Donelson, John Donelson’s daughter. In that sense, the movement from Long Island helped shape not only Middle Tennessee but also the circumstances that produced one of America’s most consequential presidents. During Jackson’s presidency, the route reversed as he passed through Kingsport on his way from Nashville to Washington.

​By 1780, another Sullivan County crossing gained prominence. Choate’s Ford, at present-day Bluff City, is well-documented as the place where Overmountain forces crossed on Sept. 24, 1780, while moving from Abingdon toward Sycamore Shoals on their way to King’s Mountain — a battle many historians consider a turning point in the Revolution.

​Sullivan County’s role is straightforward: The Holston Valley was a gateway. Crossings focused travel. Treaties shaped migration. The river carried people west and downstream.

​As America approaches its 250th anniversary, it is worth remembering that the route to Nashville — and to Tennessee itself — ran through the Holston first.
​Coming in June: 1780: When the war passed through Sullivan County.

This is the fifth in a monthly series submitted by the Sullivan 250 Committee marking the celebration of America’s 250th birthday.

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At 80 years old and even after a knee replacement last year, Betty Kellenberger has become the oldest female to thru-hike the entire Appalachian Trail. “We put all sorts of limitations on ourselves…Sometimes the biggest one is we don’t get up and try it.”
Do not give up and too easily and put limitations on yourself. At Appalachian Chiropractic we can most often help our patients to not only get out of pain or at least greatly minimize it, but also help improve quality of life to be able to do the activities one needs or wants to do.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/10/29/appalachian-trail-hike-betty-kellenberger/

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BIG NEWS!
Announcing the return of therapeutic massage with Crystal Stidham LMT! Appy Chiro is Tennessee's longest serving chiropractic clinic providing safe and superior natural methods of pain relief and wellness to NE Tennessee and SW Virginia since 1938. Appointments with Crystal are NOW available online at AppyChiro.com.

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We are excited to announce the return of massage therapy in early August and even more so that it will be performed by our own very talented Crystal Stidham LMT. If you visited us in 2007-8 you may remember her from then as our part-time receptionist!

Crystal Stidham is a native of Daytona Beach, Florida. At the age of 16 she moved to Kingsport, Tennessee, where she graduated from Dobyns-Bennett and completed Bachelor Degrees in both Biology and Studio Art at East Tennessee State University. With a penchant for healing arts and physical activity, she furthered her professional and personal studies by way of massage school, Body Code energy work, nutritional therapy and CrossFit after moving to Nebraska in 2011. “I have been loving what I get to share ever since, and I am so excited to be returning to the mountains of Northeast Tennessee! Drawing from a host of modalities, I create a therapeutic blend of what feels most beneficial for each client within the scope of practice of massage therapy."