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Built in 1797 by Dr. William P. Chester of Lancaster, Pa., Chester Inn has been continuously occupied as an inn, a hotel and an apartment house. Its guests have included three presidents of the United States—Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson—as well as John Sevier, Governor of Franklin and first Governor of Tennessee. In the summer of 1832, President Andrew Jackson held a reception for his friends on the porch of the inn.
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Jonesborough, Tennessee · United States
