Russellville, Tennessee

Russellville is an unincorporated community in Hamblen County, Tennessee, United States. Located along U.S. Route 11E, it lies approximately midway between Whitesburg and Morristown.

Russellville, Tennessee
Unincorporated community
The post office in Russellville
Russellville
Russellville
Coordinates: 36°15′31″N 83°11′43″W
CountryUnited States
StateTennessee
CountyHamblen
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP codes
37860

Historic Bethesda Presbyterian Church is located in Russellville.

History

Russellville was founded by George Russell in 1785. He had been granted a large tract of land in Greene Co, North Carolina.

During the American Civil War, Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet established a headquarters in the Nenney House in Russellville just after the Battle of Bean's Station in December 1863. His Confederate army used Russellville for their winter camp of 1863-64. The house still stands and has been converted into The General Longstreet Museum.[1] Also during that winter, General Lafayette McLaws was in quarters at a house now called "Hayslope", a house that also still stands and was originally a tavern built by the early settlers. It was originally called the Tavern with the Red Door, while General Joseph B. Kershaw was at the nearby Taylor plantation. The nearby Bethesda Presbyterian Church was used as a hospital during the Civil War and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It has many wartime burials, 80 of which are unidentified.[2][3]

Notable People

References
  1. "General James Longstreet, CSA". LongstreetMuseum.com. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  2. "Bethesda Presbyterian Church: A Church Divided". The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  3. McRary, Amy (April 1, 2012). "Bethesda Church was first a hospital, then a casualty". Knoxville News Sentinel. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  • Emma Dean Smith Trent (1987), East Tennessee's Lore of Yesteryear.
  • Rebecca Dougherty Hyatt (1970), "History Around Russellville".


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