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White's Fort was settled in 1786 by James White , a Militia officer during the American Revolutionary War . When William Blount , the territorial governor of the Southwest Territory , moved the territorial capital to White's Fort in 1791 , he renamed it Knoxville in honor of Henry Knox , the American Revolutionary War general and Washington 's Secretary Of War . REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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