QuickFacts About Grainger County
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Bibliography of Grainger County Resources from TSLA
This document was created by staff of the TN State Library & Archives. It was copied here for the convenience of our site’s visitors. PLEASE NOTE that TSLA does not hold copies of all of the items listed in … Continue reading →
TN State Library & Archives Digital Collections
Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA) 19th Century Newspapers Civil War Era Database Civil War Sourcebook TSLA Photograph Database Tennessee Landmark Documents
Continue reading →Progress on the Morristown & Cumberland Gap Railroad
A large force is now at work on the Morristown and Cumberland Gap railroad. The track for sometime has been completed to the Holston river about five miles from Morristown. At this point a fine iron bridge is being erected … Continue reading →
Along the Morristown & Cumberland Gap Railroad
The soon to be completed Morristown & Cumberland Gap railroad will provide a boom not only to the terminus at Morristown in Hamblen County, Tenn., but is small towns and hamlets along its route. The road will also provide a … Continue reading →
Morristown & Cumberland Gap Railroad
Today marks a new era in the history of Grainger county. Dirt was broken for the Morristown and Cumberland Gap railroad which starts at Morristown and intersects with the Knoxville and Cumberland Gap and Louisville railroad at Luttrell. Early this … Continue reading →
Grainger County Post Offices, 1803-1971
The following table contains all post offices known to exist in present-day Grainger, Claiborne, and Union counties through 1971. Grainger County’s list contains 90, some appearing more than once under similar names. Claiborne County’s list contains 104, and Union County’s … Continue reading →
Grainger County in 1882
County seat, Rutledge, having 126 inhabitants. Other towns are, Tate Springs and Mineral Hill Springs, which are both noted summer resorts. Navigable streams are the Holston and Clinch rivers, which afford water for flat boats. Besides these rivers there are … Continue reading →
Mayor and Aldermen of Morristown vs. George A. Shelton
At Knoxville: September Term, 1858 Constitutional Law. Town charters granted by the County Court. Const., art. 11, §7. Acts of 1849, ch. 17, and 1856, ch. 254. The act of 1849, ch. 17, authorizing the County Courts, upon certain conditions, … Continue reading →
General Description of Grainger County
General Nature of the County Grainger County is in the northeastern part of Tennessee. It is bordered on the north by Claiborne and Hancock Counties, on the south by Hamblen and Jefferson Counties, on the east by Hawkins County, and … Continue reading →