The Chester Inn was an inn on the Great Stage Road in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
Lundy moved the paper to Jonesboro, Tennessee in 1823, and then established himself in Baltimore, Maryland in 1824, where most of the paper's run would be published.
On 17 February, a Green Jackets observation post deployed around the village of Jonesborough began to take heavy fire from the "March Wall", which drew parallel to the border with the Republic of Ireland to the east, along the Dromad woods.
James Patton Brownlow was born on December 14, 1842 in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
The incident resulted in the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Douglas Corden-Lloyd.
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On 17 February 1978, a British Army Gazelle helicopter, went down near Jonesborough after being fired at by a Provisional IRA unit from the South Armagh Brigade.
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The IRA unit was involved in a gun battle with a Green Jackets' observation post deployed in the area, and the helicopter was sent in to support the ground troops.
The main crest of the Appalachian Mountains rises just a few miles southeast of Jonesborough.
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Jonesborough is centered around the junction of Andrew Johnson Highway (which is part of both U.S. Route 321 and U.S. Route 11), which connects the town to Greeneville to the southwest and Johnson City to the northeast, and Tennessee State Route 81, which connects Jonesborough to Interstate 81 to the northwest and Interstate 26 at Erwin to the southeast.
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It was named after North Carolina legislator, Willie Jones, who had supported the state's westward expansion over the Appalachian Mountains.
Jonesborough, Tennessee | Jonesborough | Jonesborough, County Armagh | Heading for "F.A. Ross' Corner," a series in the ''Jonesborough Whig'' that attacked Presbyterian minister Frederick Augustus Ross |
The Union army began pulling out of its positions on August 25 to hit the railroad between the towns of Rough and Ready and Jonesborough.
17 February 1978 - Ian Corden-Lloyd (39), member of the British Army was killed when the Gazelle helicopter in which he was travelling crashed, shortly after having been hit by gunfire from a Provisional IRA unit, near Jonesborough, County Armagh.