Motorist travel up and down Rhea County Highway around the Spring City Depot Station every day. Citizens are walking about on Front Street. With everyone going about their daily routine, you’d never realize that just a few years ago the area was littered about with twisted metal wreckage and spilled coal from a derailed train. …
Spring City
Gorilla Attacks Constable, Arrested by Sheriff Carl “Shipwreck” Kelly
Constable J.C. Mincey attacked by Circus Gorilla in Spring City- Trainer and Gorilla tossed in Rhea Jail June 1955. At the conclusion of the 1925 Scopes Trial, the citizens of Rhea County thought they had heard the last of any court trials relating to monkeys. That all changed one June afternoon in 1955 when a…