A Silence on Lone Mountain: Remembering Graysville’s Sanitarium The Graysville Sanitarium, also known as the Southern Sanitarium, was established in the early twentieth century on the wooded slopes of Lone Mountain overlooking Graysville, Tennessee, as part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s early effort to expand medical missionary work into the American South. The project was…
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Graysville Tennessee Bank Robbed June 9, 1926
Three Men Arrested Shortly Afterwards On the morning of June 9, 1926, following the robbery of $1000 in cash from the Bank of Graysville, 19-year-old Verdman Gadd, 18-year-old Martin McClure, and 23-year-old Homer King were behind bars in the Rhea County Jail. Two masked me said to have been Gadd and McClure entered the bank…
Graysville Council Votes To Demolish Depot Station May 6, 1957
On the evening of May 6, 1957, during a City of Graysville Council meeting Mayor Truman Cox read a letter from the Railroad Company to the city in reference to the depot station. The letter gave authorization to the City of Graysville to proceed with the necessary actions to remove the depot building from its…
Curly Fox Grand Ole Opry Member
(Curly Fox Photo Courtesy of Cunnyngham Studio Archives) Rhea County Resident Curly Fox Champion Fiddler Curly Fox was once described as more than just another Grand Ole Opry old-timer; he was probably the most influential fiddler in country music history, and one of the most popular entertainers of his time. The fiddler, who got his…
Freight Train Derailment Graysville Tennessee September 9, 1949
One man was killed, and four others were injured, two seriously, about 2:45am on Friday morning September 9, 1949, when the last 13 cars of a 57-car southbound Southern Railway freight train left the tracks and crashed into six section gang sleeping cars parked on a siding a quarter-mile south of Graysville, Tennessee. George Jones,…
Southern Training School Demolished 1974
Southern Training School Graysville Tennessee The Following was written by Mrs. Vivian Littell in 1974 A historical landmark, which was the only remaining building of the old Southern Training School, was demolished in 1974. In 1891, Mr. Colcord, who had just founded Milton Academy in Oregon, was called by the Seventh Day Adventist Church to…
Mildred Beene’s Memories of Graysville
Mildred Emmeline (Bowman) Beene was born June 10, 1905, and passed away on January 14, 2008, at the age of 102. She is laid to rest in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Graysville, TN. In July of 1983, Mildred Beene recounted her memories of Graysville. Below is a word for word account of her memories.…
Hwy 27 Graysville-Then and Now
The featured photo above was taken in the late 1960’s along Hwy 27 near the south entrance to Graysville, Tennessee. To the left, you can see the corner of a business and the beer signs advertising the Keystone Bar. Traveling to Chattanooga on this two lane road was a bit slower than on today’s four…
City of Graysville Tennessee
Graysville, Tennessee was Incorporated in 1917 Graysville Tennessee became an incorporated town in January of 1917. The State of Tennessee passed a law chartering the town. Experts on charters said that it was the most progressive charter in the state at the time. Graysville had been trying to incorporate for several years before succeeding. The…