Mariners Compass at Butler Museum-Butler, TN - Painted Barn Quilts on Waymarking.com

John Honeycutt first settled Butler in 1768. He built an arbor shelter and lean-to where the Roan Creek from the northeastern mountains ran into the Watauga River which came from the southeastern mountains. Honeycutt later built a cabin and was joined by James Millican and a few years later a Mr. Smith built a gristmill.

By 1820 there were fifty families living here and the settlement became known as Smith's Mill because of the large mill Ezekiel Smith operated on the Roan Creek.

The trip to the county seat at Elizabethton required traveling over several mountains and crossing large rivers several times; therefore, local citizens were very involved in the movement to establish a county separate from Carter County. Johnson County was organized in 1836 and named for Thomas Johnson, an early leader deceased in 1835 but who had owned property on Roan and Doe Creeks and in the upper part of the county.

Controlled by the Confederate army of occupation during the Civil War, the loyal Johnson County citizens were largely brutalized. The Union 13th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry was organized in 1863 and provided some protection from the Confederate home guards.

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