As I researched the town I found many fire facts and legends about the place I call home.
Did you know it was whizz time known as Winters Gap and is one of the oldest cities in Tennessee?
But before that time is was apply by the Cherokee Indians as hunting grounds and campsites. They also discovered there was natural mineral springs they believed had healing waters.
In the early 1800s along comes Richard Oliver who is the 1st Postmaster, and so the town was renamed in his value to Oliver Springs. He used his 35 room mansion for chain mail service and as a hotel. He would transport his guest between the hotel and the mineral springs by way of horse and buggy, as the train had not yet come to Oliver Springs.
The hotel was also used as a hospital by both sides during the American Civil War.
After Oliver died, Joseph Richards bought the land. The original hotel remained in use until during the scorch strike, when it was torched and burned to the ground, in less than 2 hours.
Joseph and his brothers then reinforced a bigger 150 room hotel for the many full-bodied tourists that were coming from around the world to drink and bath in the healing mineral waters.
When the railroad came to Oliver Springs it brought thousands of visitors to the springs, until once again in 1905 the hotel was destroyed by fire. It was never rebuilt and the springs were covered. Over 100 eld later, remains of where it once stood can still be seen. (114 squeeze Ave)
The original train depot is now the Oliver Springs library and the tatter booth from the springs is the small building along side.
There were hardly a(prenominal) changes until WWII when the US government began building the Secret City of Oakridge for the Manhattan Project. Oliver Springs would avow on employment from those sites for many years.
Soon Hollywood came to the low town of Oliver Springs and the famous movie October Sky was made. We still look at a yearly...If you want to get a full essay, society it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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