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A Brief Overview of Bean Station, Grainger County
Bean Station, Tennessee is the famous location of the Battle of Bean Station and the historical crossroad of the Kentucky Road and New Orleans-to-Washington Road. The city is located on the eastern end of the county near Morristown, and is presently Grainger's most populated community. Although the city gets its name from early resident and pioneer, William Bean, residents have a sense of humor--at the October Harvest Pride Days festival, officials plan to cook the world's largest pot of beans, setting a Guinness world record. The city was founded in 1776 and incorporated in 1996, driven by a growing demand for municipal utilities. Meanwhile, the city has expanded in population and size. District 3 Congressman, Zachary Wamp predicted the county will grow in toward the middle. Relocation info
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Bean Station HistoryCivil War
Ritter Farms hosts a civil war reenactment of this battle at their farm in Rutledge every spring. The Tennessee Historical Commission has erected this historical marker [photo, right] in Bean Station at the top of 25e at what is now called Veterans' Outlook. Read more Bean Station History at the City of Bean Station website. An excerpt from a 2007 Bean Station press release related to the October 20-21, 2007 Bean Station Harvest Pride Days Festival: "The City of Bean Station was not actually named for legumes, but rather two brothers, Robert Bean and William Bean II, who established the first permanent settlement in the area in 1776. The Beans were captains in the Revolutionary War, and were granted 3,000 acres of land along German Creek for their services when the still wild and largely unexplored territory was part of North Carolina. Later, a fort was constructed at the intersection of the Kentucky Road and the Cherokee""s Great War Path to protect settlers from attacks by Indians. The two paths quickly turned into major roads for frontiersmen heading west, and travelers heading north and south, and the intersection soon attracted many merchants and businessmen. By the early 1800s, three taverns and inns had been licensed to operate at Bean""s Station. The most notable was a two-story log tavern built between 1811 and 1814. As the community continued to grow, so did the tavern. In 1825, a 40-room addition was built, bringing the total number of rooms to 52. With a spacious parlor and ballroom, and extensive wine cellar, Bean""s Station Tavern was the largest inn between Washington, D.C. and New Orleans and was, for a short time, one of the most well known places in Tennessee. Among the famous Americans who passed through Bean""s Station were Davy Crockett, Henry Clay, Andrew Johnson, Andrew Jackson, and James Polk. In 1863, during the Civil War, Bean""s Station was the scene of a fierce battle between Union and Confederate forces. Both sides suffered heavy casualties."
Early MigrationMigrating herds of bison seeking salt licks to the north beat a worn path though the wilderness, a path that was long traveled by Indians for hunting, trade, and warpath. This route later became the "Wilderness Road" in Daniel Boone's day. The pass through the northern valleys and onward toward Cumberland Gap was the early settlement route. Later, what is today Hwy 11w became a southern branch of the Wilderness Road to Kentucky, converging with the Great Wagon Trail heading west. It was soon the "Kentucky Road" and later dubbed "Dixie Highway." This intersection led to the formation of Bean Station, one of Grainger County's largest and newest cities. It broke north through the mountains along the route of what is now Old Highway 25e. The route passed through Clinch Mountain at "Bean's Gap". Later, it continued westward from Bean Station toward White's Fort (Knoxville) and intersected with the Emery Road at Blains Crossroads (present-day Blaine). The Emery Road veered upwards, skirting Knoxville and moved on to Nashville. Later, Hwy 11w was connected from Knoxville to Nashville. This route was, at various times, called the "Emery Road" and also "Avery's Trace" and today, Emory Road. Tennessee and Kentucky had no permanent Indian settlements when the emigrants arrived. According to Cherokee, Chief Little Corn Planter it had remained unsettled for around 150 years; ever since the Cherokee and and Chickasaw Indians killed most of the indigenous Shawnee and drove the rest out. After the Shawnee vacated, it was treated as a shared hunting ground and place to settle disputes between rival tribes. The Great Trading Path (also called the Great Warrior's Path) ran from Chattanooga, through Jefferson County, and crossed the Holston near Rogersville before following the route shared by the Great Wagon Trail northward. The area containing Grainger County was officially off-limits for some time by royal decree. Even after the American Revolution, the area was slow to settle due to attacks by roving bands of angry Shawnee who lost land in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. The actual boundary of the territory was determined by Hawkins and Pickens in 1797. The county formed in 1796 from parts of Hawkins and Knox Counties. At various times, Grainger County included parts of Campbell, Claiborne, Hamblen, and Union Counties. Washburn was originally the county seat. Rutledge became the permanent county seat in 1801. Turn of the Century Resorts
Although the Tate Springs Hotel is no longer in existence, the bathhouse of the hotel now houses Kingswood Academy and has become a nationally recognized historical location. A large, Victorian gazebo also still remains. A modernized replica of Tate Springs Resort is in development along Cherokee Reservoir in Bean Station. |
The famous 
During
the Victorian era and early 1900s, the tourism industry reached its
height in the Appalachian Mountains...before the Great Depression.
Wealthy industrial tycoons once flocked to the region for the mountain
resorts, scenery, to hike the mountains, to hunt wild game, and boat
and fish along the Clinch and Holston rivers. Resorts and sanitariums
were built around mineral springs, which were thought, at the time, to
offer homeopathic miracle cures for a wide variety of ailments. Resorts
served as package-vacation destinations that were especially attractive
at the time since people got around on foot or by horse and buggy and
occasionally by boat or train. As it was, the nearest train stop was in
Washburn on the other side of the mountain. Automobiles such as the
Model-T were still a highly rare commodity and gas stations were
uncommon. In the early 1900s, a popular passenger train route led from
the top of White Top Mountain in Grayson County, VA to Abington, VA
near the border of North Carolina. From there, the Kentucky Road led a
straight shot west to Bean Station, the location of the area's most
successful resort and exporter of mineral water, Tate Springs. Several
other resorts popped up in Tennessee around this time. The nearest was
Mineral Hill Springs Hotel and Sanitarium a few miles down the road
nearer to Bean Station Tavern. Both the Mineral Hill Springs Hotel and
the Bean Station Tavern were razed by Tennessee Valley Authority around
1930 to make way for the Cherokee Dam and Reservoir and today, those
locations, along with the original Lee Highway/Kentucky Road crossroad
are under water for most of the year.
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