page_title: Carter County, Tennessee
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Carter County, Tennessee / History
context_page_description: Carter County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 57,424. Its county seat is Elizabethton. The county is named in honor of Landon Carter, an early settler active in the "Lost State of Franklin" 1784-1788 secession from the State of North Carolina.
  Carter County is part of the Johnson City, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area, located in northeastern Tennessee.
context_section_description: The area was originally claimed by Britain as part of the Clarendon settlements of the Province of Carolina, although actually populated at the time by the Cherokee.
  The area was part of (though seldom actually administered by) the following jurisdictions in its early history:
  New Hanover Precinct (1729-1734)
  Bladen County (1734-1749)
  Anson County (1749-1753)
  Rowan County (1753-1775)
caption: A map of the Province of Carolina
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