Tate Springs, Tennessee

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| official_name = Tate Springs, Tennessee

| settlement_type = Unincorporated community

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| image_caption = The former Tate Springs Resort Hotel circa 1940

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| coordinates = {{coord|36.340462|N|83.340508|W|region:US-TN_type:city|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = United States

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name1 = Tennessee

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Grainger

| subdivision_type3 = Town

| subdivision_name3 = Bean Station

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| named_for = Resort of same name

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| elevation_ft = 1,119

| elevation_m = 341

| timezone = Eastern (EST)

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| postal_code_type = ZIP code

| postal_code = 37708

| area_code_type = Area code

| area_code = 865

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Tate Springs is an unincorporated community in Grainger County, Tennessee and neighborhood of Bean Station. It is part of the Morristown Metropolitan Statistical Area which consists of Grainger, Hamblen, and Jefferson counties.{{cite web|title=Revised Delineations of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Micropolitan Statistical Areas, and Combined Statistical Areas, and Guidance on Uses of the Delineations of These Areas|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/omb/bulletins/2013/b13-01.pdf|publisher=Office of Management and Budget|access-date=August 1, 2020}}

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’s water.{{cite news|last1=Phillips|first1=Bud|date=July 18, 2010|title=Tate Springs was once a popular health resort|work=Bristol Herald Courier|url=https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/tate-springs-was-once-a-popular-health-resort/article_ec32f446-f7aa-51bd-b932-c94a101fc6ca.html|access-date=July 2, 2020}} During its heyday, the resort complex included over three-dozen buildings, a {{convert|100|acre|ha|adj=on}} park, and an 18-hole golf course.{{cite web |title=Spring Histories |url=https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/tsla/exhibits/tnresorts/spring_histories.htm |website=Tennessee State Library and Archives |access-date=July 2, 2020}} The resort had attracted some of the wealthiest people in America during this time. The resort declined during the Great Depression, 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 still stands just off U.S. Route 11W near Bean Station Elementary School.{{cite web|url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/grainger-county/|title=Grainger County|last=Collins|first=Kevin|date=October 8, 2017|website=TennesseeEncyclopedia.net|publisher=Tennessee Historical Society|access-date=March 13, 2020}}

Since the 1960s, the resort site and its remaining cabins have been used by Kingswood Home for Children, a children's home and school.{{cite web |title=Our Legacy |url=https://www.kingswoodkids.org/our-legacy.html |website=Kingswood Home for Children |access-date=August 1, 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Phillips |first1=Bud |title=Pioneers in Paradise: Tate Springs becomes Kingwood School and Home for Children |url=https://heraldcourier.com/news/pioneers-in-paradise-tate-springs-becomes-kingwood-school-and-home-for-children/article_f429ef5f-fbc3-5ae4-b1a8-720cfa66ff29.html |access-date=August 20, 2020 |work=Herald Courier |date=July 29, 2012}}

Geography

Tate Springs is located about 4 miles west of Bean Station, and parts of the community have since been annexed into the town.{{google maps|accessdate=August 1, 2020|url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Bean+Station,+TN/Tate+Springs,+TN+37708/@36.3430551,-83.3306069,13.63z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x885b85ec306bcf85:0xd0f93564606e9021!2m2!1d-83.284062!2d36.3437016!1m5!1m1!1s0x885b9c07c8fbe235:0xbaa4c1e76b66fc8!2m2!1d-83.3457307!2d36.3400895}}

References

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{{Grainger County, Tennessee}}

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Grainger County, Tennessee

Category:Unincorporated communities in Tennessee

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