Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Powder Springs is an unincorporated community in Grainger County, Tennessee, United States. [1] Notes This page was last edited on 28 July 2023, at 04:01 (UTC). Text ...
Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1] There are 69 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 2 National Historic Landmarks. There are two former listings.
The Tate Springs Resort complex located in the Bean Station region of the county, provided accommodations for tourists and business travelers alike until the Great Depression. It included mineral baths and waters, an enormous resort hotel, a swimming pool and bathhouse, a springhouse constructed as a gazebo, private cabins, and a golf course.
Subsequently, as the idea of centralized schooling became popular, the smaller elementary schools, such as Thorn Hill Elementary, Liberty Hill School, and Powder Springs Elementary were closed and combined into the new Washburn Elementary School. At the time, buildings of both Rutledge and Washburn High Schools were built in a similar design.
Robbins is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Scott County, Tennessee. [4] As of the 2010 census, its population is 287. [5] It is concentrated along U.S. Route 27 between Huntsville and Elgin, in Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau region.
From the early 1940s to the late 2000s, Thorn Hill was the location of the Imperial Black Marble Quarry, which mined Tennessee marble.The black marble extracted from the mine was used in the Tennessee State Capitol, Knox County Courthouse, National Archives Building, and the Washington Monument. [7]
Lea Springs was the site of a historic mansion of the same name. It was built by slaves in 1819 for Pryor Lea, who grew up in nearby Richland. [4] Lea became a politician in Tennessee and Texas, and he was a founding trustee of the University of Mississippi. [4] He died in 1879, and the house was remodeled as a resort in the 1880s. [4]
Pond and fountain next to the Crystal Shrine Grotto. Memorial Park Cemetery was founded in 1924 by E. Clovis Hinds on initial 54 acres (.22 km 2). [2] It is located at 5668 Poplar Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.