Vonore, Tennessee

Vonore, United States

Vonore, Tennessee connects to 470 places across 8 topics through 21 Bunkabop connections, anchored in natural geography, early American history, and government infrastructure. The town sits at the confluence of the Little Tennessee River and the Tellico River, a site of indigenous settlement for thousands of years. Cherokee towns including Tanasi, the name source for the state of Tennessee, and Chota, the Overhill Cherokee "mother town," once occupied this valley. The Tennessee Valley Authority flooded most of those archaeological sites in 1979 when it completed Tellico Dam.