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2021 FACT BOOK WASHINGTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE 2021 FACT BOOK WASHINGTON COUNTY This could Apply today to learn about ourbe multiple You! career paths! 423-283-5029 careers.acttoday.com 2 2021 FACT BOOK WASHINGTON COUNTY Table of CONTENTS 04 Downtown Johnson City 07 Historic Jonesborough 08 East Tennessee State University 09 Neighboring Colleges 11 Johnson City Schools 12 Washington County Schools 14 Washington County Festivals 2021 16 Ballad Health 19 VA Medical Center FACT 20 Historic Sites BOOK Transportation WASHINGTON COUNTY, 22 TENNESSEE 24 Outdoor Recreation Published by Johnson City Press / Six Rivers Media, LLC Stats & Facts – Local Statistics 26 Rick Thomason, Publisher 28 Bristol Motor Speedway 204 W Main St, Johnson City, TN 37604 423-929-3111 30 Sports Facilities www.johnsoncitypress.com 2021 FACT BOOK WASHINGTON COUNTY 3 Both of downtown’s Downtown historic train depots have been renovated Johnson City into White Duck Taco Company and Yee- Haw Brewing Company. Founders Park in Downtown Johnson City. Dee Browning / Shutterstock.com Vibrant and new, yet still full of history. Downtown Johnson City has come venue for other gatherings. New businesses continue to pop up a long way in recent years. Both of downtown’s historic in the city’s downtown area. In recent The city’s flooding mitigation train depots have been renovated years, developers have also taken an projects have made downtown for business purposes. The old interest in revitalizing several of the more friendly to both visitors and ET&WNC Depot houses both White area’s vacant buildings. businesses. Two heavily used parks, Duck Taco Company and Yee- Buildings on North Commerce Founders and King Commons, were Haw Brewing Company. The latter Street have been repurposed for created in the process, contributing distributes its craft beers in several top floor apartments, and are to Johnson City’s way of life. states and has grown with new being refurbished downstairs for Founders also includes a pavilion locations around the state. The commercial tenants. Developers also that houses the Johnson City former CC&O Depot includes both recently finished work on the Henry Farmers Market and serves as a retail and restaurant space. on Main, a multi-use project housed 4 2021 FACT BOOK WASHINGTON COUNTY Serving patients in our region since 1998 Elizabethton • Greeneville • Johnson City • Kingsport www.sofha.net in several downtown buildings along and selling the 10-story building to Pavilion at Founders Park and King Main Street. The project has resulted a developer. Commons Park. in two new businesses opening in the In the interest of attracting and Johnson City has also made downtown area: Vibes Nails & Lotion keeping people downtown, Johnson an effort to spruce up its public Bar and Flashback Heat, spaces, approving a a vintage clothing store. laxer policy on murals Restaurateur Rafael in the downtown Zabala and his business historic district that partner Martin Bagwell has allowed new works are planning on opening of art to spring up on a new restaurant serving various walls in the Latin American and downtown core. Asian food, Juan Siao, The artist Daas at 104 Tipton Street. recently finished work The establishment on a mural at 73 Buffalo will open in a newly Street depicting three constructed building that crews are aiming to children of different finish in March 2021. races planting flowers. The Johnson City The City Commission Development Authority also approved a also officially purchased the John City recently launched a free Wi-Fi contract with artist Bill Bledsoe in Sevier Center in late 2019. Over the service over the summer. This will September to retouch a fading mural long-term, the organization plans on allow visitors to access the internet in Majestic Park called “Highway relocating the subsidized housing on the 200 and 300 blocks of East Runs Through It.” Bledsoe was the complex’s roughly 150 residents Main Street, Founders Park, the mural’s original artist. 2021 FACT BOOK WASHINGTON COUNTY 5 On the Motor Mile in Johnson City # Thank YYouou Johnson City 1 for Making Us YYourour Domestic Dealer of Choice. THE BEST of 2020 A WWinninginning Combination!Combination! Mike Cole Tim Arnold Charlie Birchfield Chris McCall Lynn Lloyd Cletis Greene Lloyd Fleenor Pre-Owned Mgr Sales Sales Finance Manager Finance Manager Sales Manager Sales Kirsten Martin Randy Reidel Bryan Wilder Bob Bays Daniel Bellar David Palmer Glen Taylor Internet Sales Sales Sales Sales Sales Internet Mgr Sales www.championjc.com 423-282-2121 Service Dept. Open Saturdays 8-5 3606 Bristol Highway • Johnson City Mon.-Sat.Mon.-Sat. 8:30 8:30-8:00 to 7:00 6 2021 FACT BOOK WASHINGTON COUNTY Jonesborough Historic is Tennessee’s oldest town, Jonesborough founded nearly two decades before Tennessee became a state. Main Street in Historic Downtown Jonesborough. Johnson City Press Experience unique and charming Historic Jonesborough is a County’s county seat. Jonesborough is also home to quaint little tourist town nestled in As the state’s oldest town, it’s also the International Storytelling Center, Washington County — a town known one of the most historic. In 1969, a which hosts the annual National for festivals, local shops and a large portion of the town, dubbed the Storytelling Festival. The National charming small town feel. “Jonesboro Historic District” was Storytelling Festival began in 1973. Home to about 6,000 people, placed on the National Register of It attracts thousands of visitors each Jonesborough is Tennessee’s Historic Places — including all of the year and is the town’s largest festival. oldest town, having been founded in town’s downtown Main Street. It was It is one the nation’s and the world’s 1779 — nearly two decades before where the first abolitionist periodical, premier storytelling festivals. Tennessee became a state. It was “The Emancipator,” was published. also briefly the capital of the State of Nowadays, the town’s Main Street In addition to the Storytelling Franklin, which was an autonomous is home to a number of shops and Festival and Jonesborough Days, state that survived from 1784 to businesses, places where you can Jonesborough is also supported by a 1788 before being reclaimed by find anything from antiques to number of smaller festivals scattered North Carolina. It is now Washington holiday gifts and a bite to eat. throughout the year. 2021 FACT BOOK WASHINGTON COUNTY 7 ETSU East Tennessee health science programs have been consistently State University ranked among the top health schools in U.S. News and World Report. The new James C. and Mary B. Martin Center for the Arts. Contributed by ETSU Martin Center More opportunities than ever before East Tennessee State University Colleges and schools: In recent years, the university’s is a 350-acre campus in Johnson • Clemmer College of Education main campus has experienced a lot City founded in 1911 to improve the • College of Arts and Sciences of growth in terms of capital projects. quality of life for people in the region. • College of Business and The university recently completed a It has satellite campuses in Kingsport, Technology new $53 million Martin Center for the Elizabethton and Sevierville. • College of Clinical and Arts, the $45 million renovation of the The university was originally founded Rehabilitative Health Sciences D.P. Culp University Center. primarily as a teacher’s college. Today, • College of Nursing In 2019, the university established ETSU is continually growing with new • College of Public Health a Center for Rural Health Research academic programs and expanding • Gatton College of Pharmacy following the opening of a new facilities. The university is currently • Honors College Interprofessional Education and divided into 10 colleges and schools • Quillen College of Medicine Research Center for health sciences and offers over 160 bachelor’s, • School of Continuing Studies students and faculty. ETSU leadership master’s and doctorate degrees for and Academic Outreach also hopes to secure state funding for over 14,400 students. • School of Graduate Studies a new state-of-the-art $71.8 million 8 2021 FACT BOOK WASHINGTON COUNTY humanities facility in the coming years. The institution is noted as a health • Health Professions sciences center in the region and Neighboring • Humanities recently consolidated all five health • Mathematics science colleges into ETSU Health to Colleges Science bolster research and clinical efforts • Technologies in the region. Its health science Northeast State • programs in the Quillen College of Northeast State Community For more information, visit Medicine and College of Nursing have College is a comprehensive two- www.northeaststate.edu. been consistently ranked among the year community college under top health schools in U.S. News and the governance of the Tennessee World Report. Board of Regents of the State King University ETSU is ranked among the top 10 University and Community King University was founded institutions with a Military Friendly College System of Tennessee. as King College in 1867 but School designation, with more than later grew into the doctoral-level 760 military-affiliated students. It The college provides: university it is today. In addition ranks 24th among Best Colleges for • University parallel programs to its 135-acre campus in Bristol, Students With Disabilities. Its digital designed for students Tennessee, the Presbyterian media program was recently ranked desiring to transfer to another university offers classes at first in the state. college or university. Kingsport’s Academic Village, • Career programs for students its Knoxville campus and at 10 ETSU recently planning to enter the instructional sites. Classes are boasted a record- workforce immediately upon also held online. graduation. breaking 78% • Continuing education and King’s College and school retention rate community service programs structure are: between fall 2019 for professional growth and • College of Arts and Sciences personal enrichment.