Authors: Lisa Whillock Ellis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Dandridge, Tennessee, the second-oldest town in the state, was founded in 1783 by a group of Scotch-Irish settlers. It was 13 years before Tennessee became the 16th state. The town began as a small frontier settlement along the banks of the French Broad River in the short-lived state of Franklin.