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Newport is a city in and the county seat of Cocke County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 6,945 at the 2010 census, down from 7,242 at the 2000 census. The estimated population in 2018 was 6,801. It is located along the Pigeon River.

The Great Indian Warpath passed through what is now Newport en route to the ancient Cherokee hunting grounds of northeastern Tennessee. The Warpath crossed the Pigeon River at a point nearly 0.2 miles (0.3 km) east of the McSween Memorial Bridge (US-321), in an Place where the river is normally low acceptable to stroll across. The first European traders to the area, arriving in the mid-18th century, called this point along the Pigeon River the “War Ford”.

During the American Revolution, the Cherokee similar themselves like the British, and launched blinking attacks neighboring early Euro-American settlers in the Holston valley. In the waning months of the lawsuit in 1782, a unfriendliness led by Gen. Charles McDowell of North Carolina crossed the mountains into what is now Tennessee to associate up in the same way as Col. John Sevier’s local forces and initiate an rough campaign against the discordant Cherokee. In August of that year, Sevier crossed the Pigeon at War Ford, attacking and killing several Cherokee camped along the river’s banks. This onslaught was one of the unadulterated engagements of the Revolution.

At the near of the Revolution, the first Euro-American settlers arrived in the Newport area, ensconcing themselves in the vicinity of the strategic river fords. Peter Fine standard a ferry upon the north bank of the French Broad in the prematurely 1780s, and in 1783 John Gilliland established opposite Fine’s Ferry in what is now Oldtown. Shortly thereafter, Emanuel Sandusky, a Polish immigrant, established a farm on the land where the Cocke County Memorial Building now stands, and Samuel O’Dell arranged at the junction of the Pigeon River and Cosby Creek. Sometime in the 1790s, the Gilliland family donated 50 acres (200,000 m) of estate for a town square and courthouse to be situated opposite Fine’s Ferry upon the banks of the French Broad, and the town of New Port was born.