William Blount MansionWilliam Blount Mansion

The home of William Blount from 1792 to his death in 1800. A Continental Congressman of the Congress of the Confederation and the Constitutional Convention where he represented North Carolina, Blount then became governor of the Southwest Territory, led Tennessee to statehood, and later served in the US Senate. Photo: Brian Stansberry, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blount-mansion-knoxville-tn1.jpg)