Harriman, Tennessee Harriman, Tennessee Harriman City Hall Harriman City Hall Location of Harriman, Tennessee Location of Harriman, Tennessee Harriman is a town/city located primarily in Roane County, Tennessee, with a small extension into Morgan County.
Harriman is encompassed in the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area.
3.1 East Tennessee Land Company Harriman is positioned at 35 55 43 N 84 33 21 W (35.928585, -84.555700). The town/city is situated along the physiographic boundary between the Tennessee Valley region and the Cumberland Plateau region, with the Plateau namely its Walden Ridge escarpment rising a several hundred feet above the town/city to the west.
The Emory River enters the Tennessee Valley just west of Harriman at a pass known as Emory Gap, and forms an oxbow bend that surrounds the initial section of Harriman.
Route 27, known as Roane Street in Harriman, runs north-to-south through the town/city along the base of Walden Ridge.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.6 square miles (27.4 km2), of which 10.4 square miles (26.9 km2) is territory and 0.19 square miles (0.5 km2), or 1.86%, is water. East Tennessee Land Company See also: Cardiff, Tennessee and Lenoir City, Tennessee Lenoir_City_Company Harriman was established as a Temperance Town in 1889 by temperance boss activists led by New York-born minister and plant manager Frederick Gates.
Seeking a territory venture that could attract industrialized and economic evolution while avoiding the vice-driven pitfalls of late 19th century business towns, Gates and fellow prohibitionists chartered the East Tennessee Land Company in May 1889.
In subsequent months, the business acquired a several hundred thousand acres of territory around what is now Harriman, including the plantation of Union Army colonel and state senator, Robert K.
The East Tennessee Land Company's plan was to purchase land, build a town based on prohibitionist and other reform boss principles, and establish subsidiary companies to attract industry.
After a prosperous territory auction in Harriman in 1890, the business established three subsidiaries: the East Tennessee Mining Company to administer the region's coal and iron extraction operations, the Harriman Coal & Iron Railroad Company to precarious the small-town barns system, and the Harriman Manufacturing Company to attract industries by providing start-up capital. To universal its prosperity and advertise Harriman, the business assembled an imposing brick command posts (now Harriman City Hall), with its four picturesque Norman towers, at the corner of Walden Avenue and Roane Street near the center of the new town. By 1892, a several rolling mills, factories, and other businesses had relocated to Harriman. To help finance its early operations, the East Tennessee Land Company borrowed just over one million dollars from the Central Trust Company of New York.
The East Tennessee Land Company, unable to pay the interest on its million-dollar loan, attempted a last-ditch stock sale to raise cash to pay off the loan, but the sale failed.
Harriman is titled for Walter Harriman, a governor of New Hampshire whose son, Walter C.
Harriman, was managing director of the East Tennessee Land Company.
The site of Harriman was chosen primarily for its adjacency to Emory Gap, where the Cincinnati Southern Railway joined the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway.
The block bounded by Roane, Walden, Morgan, and Clinton streets was set aside for the city's enhance buildings (this block is now the locale of the town/city hall, library, and fire department).
Shortly after the initial auction, the business platted a several more lots outside the town/city in what is now the Walnut Hills and Oak View neighborhoods for the city's wage workers. In spite of the East Tennessee Land Company's collapse, Harriman continued to grow, although its expansion was very gradual.
The American Temperance University was established in 1894, and directed out of the East Tennessee Land Company's abandoned headquarters. In the 1920s, the combination of the stock market crash and a devastating flood of the Emory River, both in 1929, wiped out much of the city's industry.
A paper foundry and two hosiery mills provided the biggest share of jobs in the town/city through the rest of the twentieth century, with the paper foundry (a Mead Corporation property) and the hosiery companies (Harriman Hosiery, formerly a Burlington Corp.
Its streets retain its initial grid pattern, as the collapse of the East Tennessee Land Company in 1893 "froze" the town/city in its initial developmental state.
Harriman's K-12 enhance schools are directed by the Roane County school system: Institutions of college studies include the chief campus of Roane State Community College (located just outside Harriman town/city limits) and the Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Harriman, just north of the city.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Harriman city, Tennessee".
John Benhart, Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900 (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), pp.
Harriman in the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture Wikimedia Commons has media related to Harriman, Tennessee.
City of Harriman official website "History of Harriman, Tennessee" (1893) by James Hayward Harriman, Tennessee at DMOZ Municipalities and communities of Morgan County, Tennessee, United States Municipalities and communities of Roane County, Tennessee, United States
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