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Joppa is centered around Joppa Elementary School located at the junction of the Federal Road/U.S. Route 11W/Rutledge Pike, which connects the community to Kingsport to the east and Knoxville to the west, and Joppa Mountain Road, which crosses Clinch Mountain Ridge via the Powder Spring Gap to the community of Powder Springs to the northwest ...
The Tate Springs Springhouse still stands just off U.S. Route 11W near Bean Station Elementary School. In 1901, in the northern area of the county near Thorn Hill, a four-year conflict between two families, known locally as "The Battle of Thorn Hill," began following the murder of a prominent resident. [18]
Two-lane US 11W looking northeast near Lea Springs; Joppa Mountain, a peak on the Clinch Mountain ridge rises in the distance.. US 11W enters the city limits of Blaine at the Knox–Grainger county border, and transitions from a four-lane divided highway to an undivided five lane with sidewalk facilities providing access to Blaine's central business district and retail areas. [12]
Rutledge Middle School in Rutledge is the location of the Grainger County Tomato Festival, which celebrates the tomato, Grainger County's most popular cash crop, annually since 1992. Around thirty-thousand festival-goers across the state of Tennessee and the United States gather to witness events about the county's heritage and its significant ...
Thorn Hill does not have a school located in the community. Students must attend school at either Washburn School (K-12), Bean Station Elementary School (K-6), Rutledge Middle School (7-8), or Grainger High School (9-12), all of which are a part of the Grainger County Schools district serviced by the Grainger County Board of Education.
The school named for a former Jacksonville NAACP president replaced a building that had deteriorated. Two other schools are being consolidated there. $43M Rutledge H. Pearson Elementary, first new ...
Bean Station Elementary School, which is located in the westernmost part of the town, is operated by the Grainger County Department of Education. Middle-school students attend Rutledge Middle School, and high-school students attend Grainger High School in Rutledge. All of these schools are part of the Grainger County Schools District. [75]
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