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The History ... The First settlement of Grainger County begun about 1785, along the valley Clinch Mountain, at the head of Flat Creek. The first settlers were some who had resided originally in what is still Hawkins County. A prominent pioneer, James Ore, located at a place known as Oresville, about one mile east of Bean Station, near the close of the 18th century.

Grainger County is located in East Tennessee, one of the state’s three grand. Grainger County was formed in 1796 from parts of Knox, and Hawkins County. The boundaries for Grainger County were as follows: It begun on the main road leading from Bulls Gap to Haynes Iron Works, on Mosey Creek, at the house of Felp’s Read, running course to the Kentucky road on the north of Holston River, then west to the Virginia line, then west said line to a point northwest of the end of Clinch Mountain, and to a ridge dividing Richland and Flat Creeks to Holston River at the upper end of the first bluff above Boyle’s old place, then up the course of the river to the mouth of Panther Creek near the home of John Evans.

Grainger County is located in East Tennessee approximately 18 miles from downtown Knoxville and borders northeast side of Knox County. The central business districts of Morristown, Jefferson City, Tazewell, and Rogersville area within a 15 minute drive from Grainger County. State Highways 92,131, 61, and US highway 11-W and 25-E. Interstates 40,75, and 81 area only a 30minute drive from the county.

General Information

Library

Bean Station Library
Highway 25E
Bean Station

Blaine Library
Indian Cave Road
Blaine

Newspapers

Grainger County News
Rutledge, TN
(865) 828-5254

Population

Grainger County population - 17,095

Telephone Service

Bell South
(865) 557-6500

Transportation

US Highway 11W, 25E

Utilities

Powell Valley Electric Cooperative
New Tazewell, TN
(865) 626-5204

Education

The Grainger County School district comprised of 6 schools and an adult high school is located approximately 30 miles northeast of Knoxville, Tennessee. There are 4 elementary schools, 1 middle school, 2 high schools and an Adult High School serving the communities of Bean Station, Rutledge, Blaine, and Washburn.

Bean Station Elementary School KG-08
Bean Station, TN 37708
(865) 767-2131

Joppa Elementary School KG-08
Rutledge, TN 37861
(865) 828-5721

Rutledge Elementary School KG-08
Rutledge, TN 37861
(865) 828-5614

Rutledge High School 09-12
Rutledge, TN 37861
(865) 828-5291

Washburn High School KG-12
Washburn, TN 37888
(865) 497-2557

Medical

A tele-medicine home healthcare project, "Rural Health Care Through Tele-medicine: An Interdisciplinary Approach" has been funded by the US Office of Rural Health Policy Rural Tele-medicine Grant Program through the University of Tennessee Medical Center Tele-medicine Program in order to improve access to quality health services for the rural residents of Grainger County, Tennessee.

Grainger County has a population of 18,667 and no hospital. Four clinics with three and two part-time physicians provide primary medical care full-time.

The focus of the tele-medicine project is to improve access to quality health services and to reduce the isolation of rural health care professionals in Grainger County. During this three-year project {1998-2000}, each of the three clinics will be provided with interactive audio-video tele-medicine equipment and training for its use in patient consultations. This will enable a primary care physician in one of the rural clinics to examine a patient in another. In addition, the clinic patients will have access to consultations with specialist physicians at UT Medical Center in Knoxville.

Entertainment

Grainger County being nestled in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains and graced by the Clinch Mountains, Cherokee Lake, Norris Lake, the Holston and Clinch Rivers, is a superb place for recreation.



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