Sycamore Shoals
The Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River, usually shortened to Sycamore Shoals, is a rocky stretch of river rapids along the Watauga River in Elizabethton, Tennessee.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Watauga and Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area.
Fort Watauga
Fort
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Fort Watauga, also known as Fort Caswell, was a fortification located in the Watauga River's Sycamore Shoals near modern-day Elizabethton, Tennessee. It was constructed from 1775 to 1776 by the Watauga Association, a semi-autonomous government founded by American settlers living near the river, to defend the settlers against attacks from British-allied Indians.
Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area
Park
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park is a state park located in Elizabethton, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The park consists of 70 acres situated along the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River, a National Historic Landmark where a series of events critical to the establishment of the states of Tennessee and Kentucky, and the settlement of the Trans-Appalachian frontier in general, took place.
Bonnie Kate Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Nathandyer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bonnie Kate Theatre is a theater building, which is situated 2½ miles east of Sycamore Shoals.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Big Spring and Central.
Big Spring
Hamlet
Big Spring is an unincorporated community in Carter County, Tennessee, United States. Big Spring is situated 2 miles southeast of Sycamore Shoals.
Central
Village
Central is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in western Carter County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,717 at the 2000 census and 2,279 at the 2010 census. Central is situated 2 miles southwest of Sycamore Shoals.
Elizabethton
Elizabethton is a city of 13,5000 people in Eastern Tennessee. Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government west of the Eastern Continental Divide and of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Sycamore Shoals
- Type: Rapids
- Description: Rapids in Carter County, Tennessee
- Category: body of water
- Location: Carter, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.3418° or 36° 20′ 31″ northLongitude
-82.25627° or 82° 15′ 23″ westElevation
1,467 feet (447 metres)Open location code
868V8PRV+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 356883550OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=rapids
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Polish—“Sycamore Shoals” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Sycamore Shoals”
- French: “Sycamore Shoals”
- Polish: “Jaworowe Płycizny”
- Polish: “Sycamore Shoals”
- Polish: “Sykomorowe Płycizny”
- Polish: “Sykomorowe Rozlewiska”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sycamore Shoals”. Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 3.0.