Lea Springs, Tennessee | |
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Lea Springs | |
![]() U.S. Route 11W in Lea Springs with Clinch Mountain in the background. | |
Coordinates: 36°10′43″N83°40′56″W / 36.178551°N 83.682259°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Tennessee |
County | Grainger |
City | Blaine |
Elevation | 961 ft (293 m) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP code | 37709 |
Area code | 865 |
GNIS feature ID | 1314267 [1] |
Lea Springs is an unincorporated community in southwestern Grainger County, Tennessee. [1] It is located two miles northeast of the city of Blaine. [2] It is also located partially inside Blaine's city limits and urban growth boundary. [3]
Lea Springs was the site of a historic mansion of the same name. It was built by slaves in 1819 for Pryor Lea, who grew up in nearby Richland. [4] Lea became a politician in Tennessee and Texas, and he was a founding trustee of the University of Mississippi. [4] He died in 1879, and the house was remodeled as a resort in the 1880s. [4]
The mansion was designed in the Federal architectural style, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [4] It was demolished in 2008 and the property was de-listed in 2023.
Grainger County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,527. Its county seat is Rutledge. Grainger County is a part of both the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area and Morristown Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Blaine, formerly known as Blaine's Crossroads, is a city in Grainger County, Tennessee, United States, and a suburb of neighboring Knoxville. It is part of both the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Morristown Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,084 at the 2020 census.
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U.S. Route 11W (US 11W) is the western branch of US 11 from the twin cities of Bristol, Tennessee/Bristol, Virginia, where US 11 splits into US 11E and US 11W, to Knoxville, Tennessee, where the two highways rejoin. The highway serves the Appalachia region's Ridge-and-Valley section of East Tennessee, bounded by the Clinch Mountain ridge to the north and the Holston River to the south. US 11W from Bristol to Bean Station and Blaine to Knoxville are designated as part of the National Highway System.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grainger County, Tennessee.
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Richland is an unincorporated community in southwestern Grainger County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is located partially inside Blaine's city limits and urban growth boundary.
Lea Springs was a historic mansion in Lea Springs, Tennessee near the city of Blaine, Tennessee. It was built by slaves in 1819 for Pryor Lea, who grew up at Richland. Lea became a politician in Tennessee and Texas, and he was a founding trustee of the University of Mississippi. He died in 1879, and the house was remodeled as a resort in the 1880s.
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Tate Springs was a historic world-class luxury resort complex located on U.S. Route 11W in Bean Station, Tennessee, United States. Known for its mineral spring water shipped internationally, it was considered to be one of the most popular resorts of its time in the Southern United States, and was visited by many wealthy and prominent families such as the Ford, Rockefeller, Firestone, Studebaker, and Mellon families.