States' View

Charles McClung drew the plat of Knoxville in 1791 and sold its lots at auction on October 3 that year. Born in Pennsylvania in 1761, he ran away to Philadelphia at 17, worked as a clerk and picked up surveying. He surveyed Kingston Pike in 1792, served as Knox County's first court clerk until 1834 and helped write the state's first constitution. In 1805 he hired Thomas Hope to build his country house, Statesview. He died on holiday in Kentucky in 1835 and was reburied in Old Gray Cemetery in 1904.

What the plaque says

States' View One mile south was brick home of Charles Mcclung erected about 1805 by Thomas Hope, Architect, Mcclung laid off Knoxville in 1791 on site of White's fort, was on committee to draft Tennessee's first Constitution, and was charter trustee of Blount College. Owned and renamed "Fruit Hill," 1835-1874, by early demonstration of scientific farming.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Blount Mansion — 9.8 mi
  The 1792 frame house of William Blount, governor of the Southwest Territory, Knoxville's only National Historic Landmark, where the people he enslaved are named.
• Beck Cultural Exchange Center — 11 mi
  Knoxville's Black history museum and archive, opened in 1975 in the 1912 Dandridge Avenue house the community bought for $22,500.
• American Museum of Science and Energy — 12 mi
  The Oak Ridge museum that opened in 1949, when the Manhattan Project city's gates opened, in a town whose Black workers were housed in the Gamble Valley hutments.
• Green McAdoo Cultural Center — 13 mi
  The 1935 school in Clinton that sent twelve Black students down Foley Hill to desegregate Clinton High School in August 1956, now a museum with bronze statues of the Clinton 12.

More markers nearby

• Cavett's Station — 1.4 mi
• Robert Reynolds — 4.2 mi
• Archibald Roane — 4.6 mi
• Battle of Campbell's Station — 4.7 mi