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On May 13, 1972, 14 people were killed in a head-on collision between a Greyhound double-decker bus and a tractor-trailer hauling carpet on U.S. Route 11W in the Bean Station area of the county, making it the deadliest automobile accident of its time in Tennessee. This infamous crash, along with several other fatal crashes along the narrow two ...
Bean Station includes a furniture manufacturing facility, [58] a Clayton Homes manufacturing facility, [59] and a construction materials supplier. [60] In 2010, 72% of the town's population commuted outside Grainger County for work, with most finding employment in Morristown. [61] The average commute time for Bean Station residents is 24 ...
Following the impoundment of the Holston River by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1941, many property owners were relocated to make way for Cherokee Lake. [1] In the 1970s, the community was impacted by the construction of U.S. Route 11W into a four-lane limited-access highway .
The central quilt design, including a map of the area to locate the various sites represented, was created by Flossie Bennett, a longtime leader of the FCE. A committee of representatives from Ten Mile, Peakland, Concord, Goodfield, and Decatur, decided which sites would be included in the quilt.
US 11W/US 25E passes through western Bean Station bounded to the south by Cherokee Lake and a highway-oriented commercial area to the north until reaching Main Street, a former alignment of US 11W. Past Main Street, US 11W/US 25E dips briefly southeast until reaching a trumpet interchange , where US 11W ends its concurrency with US 25E, which ...
The Tate Springs Springhouse still stands just off U.S. Route 11W near Bean Station Elementary School. [6] Since the 1960s, the resort site and its remaining cabins have been used by Kingswood Home for Children, a children's home and school. [7] [8]
Tate Springs was a historic world-class luxury resort complex located on U.S. Route 11W in Bean Station, Tennessee, United States.Known for its mineral spring water shipped internationally, it was considered to be one of the most popular resorts of its time in the Southern United States, and was visited by many wealthy and prominent families such as the Ford, Rockefeller, Firestone, Studebaker ...