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Walland is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blount County, Tennessee.

It sits in Miller's Cove, an enclosed valley in the northwestern foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, walled off to the north by Chilhowee Mountain.

The 2020 census counted 281 people in the Walland CDP, up from 259 in 2010, with 133 housing units across about 1.5 square miles.

Euro-American settlers arrived in Miller's Cove in the 1780s, when the cove was part of a vast Cherokee hunting ground.

Miller's Cove is believed to be named for brothers Alexander and Andrew Miller, who built cabins there around 1800.

In October 1567, Spanish explorer Juan Pardo's expedition is believed to have crossed the Little River at what is now Walland.

In 1845, George Amerine built an iron forge on Hess Creek in the cove that was Blount County's largest ironworks until the Civil War.

Walland's name is a fusion of Walton and England, from the Walton and England Leather Company, around whose tannery the community grew in the 1890s.

The Schlosser Leather Company opened an even larger tannery at Walland in the early 1900s that became Blount County's largest employer, processing several hundred hides a day.

The leather company built the Chilhowee Inn in 1902 to house visiting executives; it still operates as a bed and breakfast and is the oldest actively operating inn in Blount County.