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Philadelphia is a small incorporated city in Loudon County, Tennessee, founded in 1822 and incorporated in 1968; it is not the Pennsylvania city of the same name.

Philadelphia was laid out in 1821-1822 by William Knox and Jacob Pearson on land that was then part of Monroe County.

In its early years Philadelphia was a business center of the Sweetwater Valley, and by the mid-1800s it had two general stores, a tanning yard, a stillhouse, and a hotel.

On October 20, 1863, shortly after the Battle of Chickamauga, two Confederate cavalry regiments routed a Union brigade at Philadelphia, capturing 700 soldiers, six cannon, and 50 supply wagons; a reenactment of the fight was held in the town on October 20, 2001.

The 2020 census counted 607 people in Philadelphia.

The 2020 census recorded 214 households, 213 families, and 245 housing units in the city.

The Census Bureau classified all of Philadelphia's residents as rural in 2020, the median age was 37.5 years, and Hispanic or Latino residents made up 12.5 percent of the population.

Philadelphia lies along Sweetwater Creek, which empties a few miles north into the Watts Bar Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River.

The town is centered near U.S. Route 11, the Lee Highway, and State Route 323 (Pond Creek Road), which connects it to Interstate 75.

Students in Philadelphia attend Philadelphia School for kindergarten through eighth grade and Loudon High School, both in the Loudon County Schools system.