The Fountain Square area in downtown featured a host of local and traveling street entertainers including Blind Lemon Jefferson.ĭuring the 1920s and the Prohibition era, Johnson City's ties to the bootlegging activity of the Appalachian Mountains earned the city the nickname of "Little Chicago". Native son "Fiddlin' Charlie" Bowman became a national recording star via these sessions. It hosted noteworthy Columbia Records recording sessions in 1928 known as the Johnson City Sessions. Together with neighboring Bristol, Johnson City was a hotbed for old-time music. Johnson City began growing rapidly and became the fifth-largest city in Tennessee by 1930. The East Tennessee State Normal School was authorized in 1911 and the new college campus directly across from the National Soldiers Home. Before the completion of this facility, the assessed value of the entire town was listed at $750,000. Construction on this 450-acre (1.8 km 2) campus, which was designed to serve disabled Civil War veterans, was completed in 1903 at a cost of $3 million. Veterans Affairs Medical Center and National Cemetery), Mountain Home, Tennessee was created by an act of Congress introduced by Walter P. In 1901, the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (now the U.S. However, the national depression of 1893, which caused many railway failures (including the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad or "3-Cs", a predecessor of the Clinchfield) and resulting financial panic, halted Johnson City's boom town momentum. The town grew rapidly from 1870 until 1890 as railroad and mining interests flourished. Henry Johnson's name was quickly restored following the war, with Johnson elected as the city's first mayor on January 3, 1870. ĭuring the American Civil War, before it was formally incorporated in 1869, the name of the town was briefly changed to "Haynesville" in honor of Confederate Senator Landon Carter Haynes. The Southern Railway (now Norfolk Southern) also passes through the city. Both rail systems featured excursion trips through scenic portions of the Blue Ridge Mountains and were engineering marvels of railway construction. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Johnson City served as headquarters for the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (the ET&WNC, nicknamed "Tweetsie") and the standard gauge Clinchfield Railroad. įounded in 1856 by Henry Johnson as a railroad station called "Johnson's Depot", Johnson City became a major rail hub for the Southeast, as three railway lines crossed in the downtown area. In February 1788, an armed engagement took place at Tipton's farm between Tipton and his men and the forces led by John Sevier, the leader of the Franklin faction. During the State of Franklin movement, Tipton was a leader of the loyalist faction, residents of the region who wanted to remain part of North Carolina rather than form a separate state. In the 1780s, Colonel John Tipton (1730–1813) established a farm (now the Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site) just outside what is now Johnson City. William Bean, traditionally recognized as Tennessee's first settler, built his cabin along Boone's Creek near Johnson City in 1769.
They also enjoy outdoor activities, such as going to Founder’s Park and enjoying other outdoor activities that the Tri-Cities has to offer.
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In their free time, they enjoy being involved in their church, volunteering time to the medical response team and children’s ministry. Metzger, his wife Meredith, and his one-year-old son, Lincoln recently relocated to Johnson City permanently. Kevin Metzger fell in love with the Tri-Cities region and decided that Johnson City was the place he wanted to be. Metzger worked at Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville, NC and was a team physician for University of North Carolina at Asheville.ĭuring his residency at ETSU, Dr. Kevin Metzger obtained his Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at Campbellsville University (Campbellsville, KY), his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at University of Pikeville-Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine (Pikeville, KY), and completed his residency in Family Medicine at East Tennessee State University (Johnson City, TN).
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