Cheek’s Crossroads Store Journal, 1802-1807
This fantastic resource has been digitized and is fully readable on-line, thanks to the library at Brigham Young University. Click here to view the book.
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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 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 →