Grainger County Grainger County Archives E-Mail Mary Lynn Gilmore, Certified Archives Manager PO Box 408 , 7850 Rutledge Pk., Second Floor Rutledge, TN 37861 Phone: (865) 828-3693 Grainger County Historian E-mail Kenneth Coffey Bean Station, TN 37708 Grainger Today Newspaper … Continue reading →
This map shows the area surrounding where Grainger County formed in 1796. Source: Matthew Carey’s Map of Tennessee, dated 1795.
Continue reading →The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings of the Scotch-Irish Congress GoogleBooks and the Internet Archive have made the proceedings of the annual meetings of the Scotch-Irish Congress from 1889-1901 available in full, viewable and downloadable free. What a treasure! 1889 Google … Continue reading →
In 1972, the East Tennessee Historical Society published a history of Knox County, entitled French Broad-Holston Country. The map below is from that volume. A larger, PDF version of the map that appeared in a printed volume (bibliographic data was … Continue reading →
The Goodspeed Publishing Company of Nashville and Chicago issued A History of Tennessee from the Earliest Times to the Present, together with a Historical and a Biographical Sketch of … [County names go here] . . during 1886 and 1887. … Continue reading →
The Mary Blount Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution placed a DAR historical marker on the grave of Mary Grainger Blount on May 22, 2011. Mary, wife of William Blount, who was appointed governor of the … Continue reading →
The undersigned having been appointed by the County Court of Grainger county, Tennessee, for the purpose of superintending the building of a new courthouse in Rutledge, have concluded to let out the contract to the lowest bidder. Therefore we will … Continue reading →
Click here to view Grainger County’s entry on Wikipedia.
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Continue reading →The following two petitions were published by the Tennessee Genealogical Society in its journals as noted below. The transcription you see here was compared to the TGS publication, but it was not compared to the original petition documents. If you … Continue reading →
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