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Maryville is a city in (and the county seat of) Blount County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States. The city is located 20 miles south of Knoxville. Maryville's population was 23,120 at the 2000 U.S. census. According to the US Census 2006 estimate, the population is 26,433.
It is included in the Knoxville Metropolitan Area. Its estimated population is somewhere around 30,000. Maryville College is located in the city.
GeographyMaryville is located at (35.749857, -83.975805).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.9 square miles (41.2 km²), all of it land.
Maryville lies in the Foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. Chilhowee Mountain, the outermost ridge of the Western Smokies, rises prominently to the south. Chilhowee's eastern flank - known locally as "The Three Sisters" - is visible from almost anywhere in the city, and dominates the southern horizon along US-321 between Maryville and Walland. Maryville is bordered on the north by Maryville's twin city, Alcoa, Tennessee. A number of small suburbs - including Wildwood, Ellejoy, and Clover Hill - surround Maryville to the east and west.
It is included in the Knoxville Metropolitan Area. Its estimated population is somewhere around 30,000. Maryville College is located in the city.
GeographyMaryville is located at (35.749857, -83.975805).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.9 square miles (41.2 km²), all of it land.
Maryville lies in the Foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. Chilhowee Mountain, the outermost ridge of the Western Smokies, rises prominently to the south. Chilhowee's eastern flank - known locally as "The Three Sisters" - is visible from almost anywhere in the city, and dominates the southern horizon along US-321 between Maryville and Walland. Maryville is bordered on the north by Maryville's twin city, Alcoa, Tennessee. A number of small suburbs - including Wildwood, Ellejoy, and Clover Hill - surround Maryville to the east and west.
Major streetsU.S. Route 411 (called "Broadway" in downtown Maryville) connects Maryville with Sevierville to the east and Monroe County to the west.U.S. Route 321 (the Blount County leg of 321 is called Lamar Alexander Parkway) connects Maryville with Lenoir City, I-75, and I-40 to the northwest and Townsend and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to the south.U.S. Route 129 (called Alcoa Highway, Airport Highway in Alcoa, and the Maryville-Alcoa Bypass in Maryville) connects Maryville with Knoxville to the north and the upper Little Tennessee River area (Calderwood, Fontana, et al.) to the southwest.Montvale Road (State Route 336)Morganton Road, which runs parallel to US-411, connects Maryville to Greenback and the old Morganton area to west.Louisville Road (State Route 334)Pellissippi Parkway (Tennessee State Route 162 and Interstate 140) connects the Maryville-Alcoa area with West Knoxville.Washington Street (State Route 35)William Blount Drive (State Route 335)
ParksMaryville Alcoa GreenwayGreenbelt ParkAmerine Park Eagleton Park Everett Park John Sevier Park Pearson Springs Park Sandy Springs ParkHistoryThe Great Indian Warpath, which ran roughly parallel to the modern US-411, passed through what is now Maryville when the first Euro-American explorers arrived in the area. A Cherokee village known as Elajay was situated at the confluence of Ellejoy Creek (named after the village) and Little River, near modern Heritage High School. Ensign Henry Timberlake passed through the village in 1762 while returning from his expedition to the Overhill villages to the west, but reported that it had been abandoned.
In 1785, Revolutionary War veteran John Craig founded a wooden palisade known as Fort Craig at what is now Maryville in order to defend settlers against attacks from Native American tribes. Craig donated 50 acres (200,000 m²) next to his fort for the founding of a new town. Maryville was incorporated as a city on July 11 1795 and named in honor of Mary Grainger Blount, wife of territorial governor William Blount, for whom Blount County is named.
The family of Sam Houston moved to Maryville in 1808, when Houston was 15. He taught school in a one-room schoolhouse in Maryville before he began his military and political career. The schoolhouse still stands just off US-411 near the community of Wildwood.
Maryville was a center of abolitionist activity throughout the early 19th-century, due in large part to the influence of the Society of Friends - which had a relatively large presence in Blount County - and anti-slavery advocates such as Isaac Anderson, the founder of Maryville College.Durwood Dunn, Cades Cove: The Life and Death of An Appalachian Community (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988), 125.
When Tennessee voted on the Ordinance of Secession in 1861, only 24% of Blount Countians voted in favor seceding from the Union. Although staunchly pro-Union throughout the Civil War, Maryville wasn't liberated by Union troops until May 1864. In August of that year, a Confederate cavalry raid, under the command of General Joseph Wheeler, attacked the courthouse where the Union troops had barricaded themselves. The Rebels set fire to several buildings in an attempt to dislodge the Union soldiers, including a store where the city's records were being kept. Polly Tool, an African-American slave rescued most of the records and is now honored by a statue in the Blount County courthouse.
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander was born in Maryville in 1940. Alexander served as Governor of Tennessee from 1979-1987 and Secretary of Education under the first President Bush 1991-1993. He ran unsuccessful campaigns for president in 1996 and 2000, both times announcing his candidacy for the Republican Party from his hometown of Maryville. In 2002, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, replacing Fred Thompson. The Blount County section of US-321, which connects Maryville to I-40 to the west and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to the south, has been named "Lamar Alexander Parkway."
SchoolsCityFoothills Elementary SchoolFort Craig School of Dynamic LearningJohn Sevier Elementary SchoolMaryville High SchoolMaryville Intermediate SchoolMaryville Middle SchoolSam Houston Elementary School
CountySee Blount County Schools for a complete list.
William Blount High SchoolMary Blount Elementary Walland Elementary Heritage High SchoolHeritage Middle Porter ElementaryEagleton ElementaryMontvale ElementaryMiddlesettlements ElementaryCarpenters Middle School
Private/parochialMaryville Christian School
CollegesMaryville CollegeSatellite campus of Pellissippi State Technical Community CollegeFamous MaryvilliansLamar Alexander - Senior Senator of TennesseeMike Cross - musicianSam Houston - Texas revolutionaryLee Humphrey - college basketball playerMelanie Hutsell - television and movie actressSteve Kaufman - musicianOtto Pflanze - historian and authority on German history was born in Maryville on Apr. 2, 1918External linksCity of MaryvilleMaryville City Schools
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