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Tennessee AHGP Information Carter, County, Tennessee Situated in the n. e. corner of the state, and contains 540 sq. ms. Drained by Watauga r., a branch of Holston r. The surface is elevated, rocky and mountainous, on its e. and s. border. Capital, Elizabethtown. There were in 1840, neat cattle 3,932, sheep 3,470, swine 11,252; wheat 22,603 bush, produced, rye 999, Ind. corn 150,041, buckwheat 1,732, oats 54,530, potatoes 14,339, silk cocoons 71 lbs., tobacco 3,711, sugar 7,092; 4 stores, cap. $21,000; 3 furnaces, 8 forges, 4 tanneries, 8 distilleries, 1 powder m., 1 flouring m., 23 grist m., 18 saw m., 1 printing office. Cap. in manufac. $26,495. 2 acad. 48 students, 3 sch. 60 scholars. Pop. 1830, 6,414; 1840, whites 4,998, slaves 352, free col'd 22; total, 5,372. Elizabethtown, p-v., Capital of Carter County, Tennessee., 301 e. Nashville, 414 W. Situated on the Watauga r., a branch of Holston r. It contains a court house, jail, several stores and dwellings. There are extensive manufactories of iron in the vicinity.
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