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| | WILSON COUNTY TENNESSEE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Wilson County was established by an act of the Third General Assembly of the State of Tennessee on October 26, 1799, three years after the organization of the state itself. |
 | | The county was named in honor of Major David Wilson, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Sumner County while it was yet a part of North Carolina. |
 | | The 2000 Census by the U.S. Census Bureau gives Wilson County a total population of 88,809 broken down by the following: Lebanon - 20,235, Mt. Juliet - 12,366 (according to their 2003 special census Mt. Juliet had grown to 15,610) and Watertown - 1,358, with the remaining living in the county, outside of city limits. |
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