Editable Texts from the First Edition of Beersheba Springs 150 Years 1833 - 1983 A History and a Celebration Written and Edited by Margaret Brown Co;pp;inger Herschel Gower Samuel H. Howell Georgianna D. Overby With the Assistance of Numerous Contributors Beersheba Springs Historical Society Beersheba Springs, Tennessee 1983 Table of Contents Acknowledgments ................................................................................................................... 5 EDITORS to READERS ......................................................................................................... 7 Cathedral Canyon, July 3, 1982 .............................................................................................. 8 A General History ................................................................................................................... 9 The Hotel: A Fortress that Shrugged at Doom ........................................................................ 17 How We Acquired Beersheba Springs Assembly ................................................................... 20 Beersheba Springs On The National Register ......................................................................... 22 The University of the South and Beersheba Springs ............................................................... 24 Schools, Churches, and the Library ......................................................................................... 25 Beersheba: A History and a Personal View ............................................................................. 27 Savage Gulf State Natural Area .............................................................................................. 44 The Springs in and Near Beersheba ........................................................................................ 46 The Cliffs: The Armfield-Glasgow Cottage ............................................................................ 48 The Turner Cottage ................................................................................................................. 54 The Mitchell Cottage ............................................................................................................... 60 The Burch Cottage .................................................................................................................. 63 Cagle-Taylor Cottage .............................................................................................................. 65 Nanhaven ................................................................................................................................ 67 The White House .................................................................................................................... 78 Tother House ........................................................................................................................... 85 Lige Walker's Mule ................................................................................................................. 88 The Howell Cottage ................................................................................................................ 90 Bishop Otey's Cottage ............................................................................................................. 96 Hemlock Hall .......................................................................................................................... 98 The Eve Cottage ...................................................................................................................... 101 Lovers Leap ............................................................................................................................ 103 Hege-Hunerwadel House ........................................................................................................ 105 Morgan Lodge ......................................................................................................................... 107 Uncle Nathan's Cottage ........................................................................................................... 109 Kenner-Ferriss Cottage ........................................................................................................... 110 Dan: The Plumacher Place ...................................................................................................... 112 Captain Plumacher and The Swiss Colony .............................................................................. 113 Cockrill Cottage: the Middle Hege Cottage ............................................................................ 115 The Bunk House ...................................................................................................................... 117 Nelson-Hopper Cottage ........................................................................................................... 118 Douglas Brown Cottage .......................................................................................................... 119 Bean Home .............................................................................................................................. 120 Indian Rock: The Mary Means Cottage .................................................................................. 121 Benhame ................................................................................................................................. 123 The Armistead Cottage ............................................................................................................ 126 Vallée Noire ............................................................................................................................ 127 The Pull of the Past ................................................................................................................. 129 Cabin in the Pines .................................................................................................................... 131 Ten Pin Cottage ....................................................................................................................... 132 Cagle-Tate Cottage .................................................................................................................. 133 Mason-Fahery-Rogers Cottages .............................................................................................. 135 Liza and Bill Perry .................................................................................................................. 137 Backbone Inn .......................................................................................................................... 138 Stewart Cottage ....................................................................................................................... 139 Wholemeal: The Andrews Cottage ......................................................................................... 140 A Poet in Residence ................................................................................................................ 145 Beersheba Springs’ Centennial Celebration ............................................................................ 147 Randal W. McGavock and Beersheba’s Heyday ..................................................................... 149 A Lady’s Man Before the War ................................................................................................ 151 The Diary of Mrs. Bettie Ridley Blackmore: July 1863 .......................................................... 153 War Times: 1861-1865 ............................................................................................................ 158 The Howells Come to Stay: Recollections, 1870-1922 .......................................................... 160 The Mountain from Afar: A 50-Year Retrospective ................................................................ 165 Life Was Young at Beersheba ................................................................................................. 168 Cakewalks and Charades ......................................................................................................... 171 As The Century Turned ........................................................................................................... 173 A Young Doctor at the Hotel .................................................................................................. 178 Field List of Tennessee Birds .................................................................................................. 181 The Trabue Families at Beersheba .......................................................................................... 182 Cousin to Cousin: Two Boyhoods Revisted ............................................................................ 190 Girl’s Simple Pleasures in the 1930s ....................................................................................... 195 Hazards of the Road ................................................................................................................ 197 Summer Cloudburst ................................................................................................................ 199 Off on A Hike: July 21, 1922 .................................................................................................. 202 Hard Times in a One-Room Schoolhouse ............................................................................... 203 Pond Springs School in the 30s ..........................................................................................