Tate Springs is an

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Grainger County, Tennessee Grainger County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 23,527. Its county seat is Rutledge, Tennessee, Rutledge. Grainger County is a part ...

and neighborhood of Bean Station. It is part of the Morristown Metropolitan Statistical Area which consists of Grainger, Hamblen, and Jefferson counties.

History

In the post-Civil War era, a businessman named Samuel Tate constructed a large Victorian-style luxury hotel in the community that became the main focus of a resort known as Tate Springs. Around the late 1870s, the hotel was purchased by Captain Thomas Tomlinson, who would transform the property into a vast resort that advertised the supposed healing powers of its

mineral spring Mineral springs are naturally occurring springs that produce hard water, water that contains dissolved minerals. Salts, sulfur compounds, and gases are among the substances that can be dissolved in the spring water during its passage un ...

’s water. During its heyday, the resort complex included over three-dozen buildings, a park, and an 18-hole golf course. The resort had attracted some of the wealthiest people in America during this time. The resort declined during the

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, and the hotel and most of its outbuildings have since been demolished after a major fire damaged the main hotel structure. The

Tate Springs Springhouse 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 resor ...

still stands just off U.S. Route 11W near Bean Station Elementary School. Since the 1960s, the resort site and its remaining cabins have been used by Kingswood Home for Children, a children's home and school.

Geography

Tate Springs is located about 4 miles west of Bean Station, and parts of the community have since been annexed into the town.

References

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