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Kingsport

City in northeastern Tennessee, USA, on the Holston River, 84 mi/135 km northeast of Knoxville, near the Virginia border; population (2000) 44,900. Products include plastics, chemicals, textiles, paper and printing, cement, bricks, and explosives.

The community grew up as a port around Fort Patrick Henry (established in 1776), which protected the Wilderness Road (a migration route westwards). Kingsport was incorporated as a city in 1917.

The Wilderness Road is a path which followed American Indian trails and buffalo routes through western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and the Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky. It was explored in 1769 by Daniel Boone and became a main migration route westwards.



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