"The Carter Mansion" was built around 1775 by John Carter and his son Landon. John Carter was chairman of the Watauga Association, a court of men elected by settlers of Watauga County in May 1772, in what was probably North Carolina at the time. Carter County, Tn. is named for Landon Carter and the town of Elizabethton, Tn. is named for his wife Elizabeth MacLin. They are all buried in the cemetery to the east of the house shown here, in Elizabethton, Tn.
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