The Tennessee Technology Center at Elizabethton (www.ttcelizabethton.edu) is the premier workforce development training provider for Northeast Tennessee, serving students and employers in Carter, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington counties.
One of 27 technology centers serving 5.8 million residents of the state of Tennessee, TTC-Elizabethton is governed by the Tennessee Board of Regents and accredited by the Council on Occupational Education.
Established in 1963 by legislation enacted by the Tennessee General Assembly, the State Area Vocational Technical School at Elizabethton opened in October of 1965 at the Herman Robinson Campus, 1500 Arney Street, Elizabethton with its first class in Automobile Mechanics. In 1994, the statewide system of schools was renamed Tennessee Technology centers.
In 1998, TTC-Elizabethton occupied its first building expansion at 426 Highway 91, which now serves as the main campus. In October of 1999, the school opened an instructional site in Mountain City, offering Business Systems Technology, and later in Kingsport, offering classes in Practical Nursing.
Elizabethton, with a population of 14,000 residents, is the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, located on U.S. Highway 321 on the banks of the Doe River near Watauga Lake and the Cherokee National Forest. Interstates 26 and 81 serve Elizabethton, which is a part of the Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol metropolitan area.
Settled in the late 1760s, Carter County was the home of the first permanent settlement outside the original 13 colonies and the first majority-rule system of American democracy, the Watauga Settlement at Sycamore Shoals. The historic Covered Bridge, which spans Doe River in downtown Elizabethton, served as a lifeline for many residents in the flood of 1930.