Golf in Kingsport

Kingsport is Sullivan County's second city and one of the most distinctively planned industrial cities in the American South, laid out in the early 20th century by urban planners Nolen and Hawley as a model industrial community with a designed civic core and carefully organized neighborhoods. Eastman Chemical Company, which grew out of Eastman Kodak's Tennessee operations, has been the dominant employer for a century and remains one of the largest chemical producers in the country. The city's planned character is still visible in the downtown grid, the church-hill civic axis, and the neighborhood structure that set Kingsport apart from organic industrial towns. The Holston River's North and South Forks converge here, and the TVA impoundments of Boone Lake and Holston Lake frame the eastern and western approaches. Golf in Kingsport reflects the stability and civic investment of a planned industrial city with a long-tenured working and professional class.