Kingsport Wedding

Kingsport is a city located primarily in Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States (though it is also located, partially, in Hawkins County). The population was 44,905 at the 2000 census. The city, along with Bristol, Tennessee, Bristol, Virginia and Johnson City, Tennessee, is part of the Tri-Cities, Tennessee.

Initially chartered in 1822, the town was an important river (Holston) shipping port. Goods originating for many miles from the surrounding countryside were loaded onto barges for the journey downriver to the Tennessee River. The bustling young town lost its charter after its downturn in fortunes precipitated by the Civil War.

It was re-chartered in 1917. Kingsport was among the first cities in the early twentieth century with a modern urban design ([John Nolen][1] of Cambridge, MA) and among the first municipalities with a city manager form of government and a school system built on a model developed at Columbia University.

Kingsport is located at 363213N, 823232W (36.536851, -82.542123)GR1, at the intersection of U.S. highways 11 and 23.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 116.6 km (45.0 mi). 114.1 km (44.1 mi) of it is land and 2.4 km (0.9 mi) of it (2.07%) is water.