HISTORICAL MAP
Basically, this is a map of the valley between Oliver Springs, TN and Oak Ridge. The city of Oliver Springs is at the top, at the foot of Waldens Ridge, and Oak Ridge would be over the mountain at the bottom of the page. To the left would be present Harriman, to the right would be Clinton, TN
This plat was made by Mose D. Butler in the early 1890's for the purpose of showing the farm lands of William Staples, Joel Long, Samuel Long, Charlotte Griffith, and John Griffith. Fortunately for our present use, the plat also includes the boundaries of the NC grant #74 to Stockley Donelson in 1790, or the Charles McClung 5000 acre survey of 1796. Snyder E. Roberts marked off the McClung survey portion with heavy black lines and added some other notes. I have added color to the streams, but I am not skilled enough to show all the details in the original book on this page.
This area is in present Roane (left) and Anderson (right) counties, with maybe just a smidge of Morgan County at the top. The Southern RR tracts from Knoxville to Harriman are shown across the top portion of the map.
Some of the sites noted as included in this area are:
Mose Winter's Mill Dam, Little Leaf Baptist Church, Staples Mill Road, Wilson Road, Staples Sawmill, William and Tom Wright home, Sullins and Hossler [Hassler] farms, New Fairview Baptist Church, Samuel Long home, Butler home, Butler Cemetery, Thomas Butler iron forge and grist mill, William W. Ross 1200-acre tract, Tom Galbraith tract, Reuben Williams, later John W. Butler, later Tom Butler farm and grist mill, Butler Mill Road, now old Harriman Highway, Donovan Gap, Grave and tombstone of Ancil Manley, RW soldier.
The 5000 acre grant was roughly a square in shape with each of the four sies approximately 3 miles in length, or with an area of almost nine square miles. It lay astride Poplar Creek with its northern boundary running along the top of Pine Ridge above Little Leaf Baptist Church and its southern boundary stair-stepping along the top of Black Oak Ridge near present West Outer Drive. Later as the grant was divided and sold to various individuals, the deed calls were invariably referenced to the lines of the original survey of the grant.