
                                              







                                   HISTORX OF PHI~AD~P~IA
                                       1822-CIVIL .JAR

                      Philadelphia i8 one of tho older to~7ns in the
                  state of ~enneseee. A fairly a~ourste esti m~te of 
                  the origin of the town caIl be arrived at by the use
                  of a map of Philadelphia dated April 1822.  It is
                  possible that the totm ~7a~ originally laid off in the ,	Fall of 1821, as one reference I have access to states,
                  but since a map is proof I would say that as a communi
                  ty Philadelphia originated in the year 1822.  According
~R	to all reference~ I have the town was given the n~me
                  " Philadelphia" by the two men who laid off the land
                  and originally divided it into 70 lots, nrlmber e d
                  cons~ctively 1-70.

                      Looking at the original map -~e find that lot
                  number 1 ias purchased by James Price. It ;;dS situated
                  in the area ~I-rhere the John Bradghat-t ~amily no~ lives
                  and extended to the creek and to the road. If you
                  compare this original map and a present day map of
                  Philadelphia you can see that there has been -\rery 			_~	slight changes made in the layout of the to;m up to
                  the present. "11 of the tot-m was laid out on the West
                  side of the railroad and extended l~orth to the road
                  between the ~iiethodist Church and the Tillery ' s . The
                  boundlry to the South was almost the present day site
                  of the railroad heading South in the area where the
				E.R. ~ilest home is located.	;

			~	  A copy of the original map is presented else Jhere
			i	in this book and shows a 11st of the first people to
                  purchase land in Philadelphia. To help compare the
                  t~i70 maps I will list ~7hat no~7 occupies certain lots
                  sho~,m on the map. Lots 10 and 11 were opposite of
                  -~here the old flour mill stood until it iras torn
                  do~n recently. Lot 58  is  on or ne~r the present
                  Chuck Jones property. Lot ~9 t~as the location of
	;				the old hosiery mill offi ce . Originally it was the
                  lot containing the old Cleveland place uhich ~as later
                  bought by John Grigsby and later owned by R.L. l!aims.
		~-		I have read in another publication that the present
                  home of the Ernest Hest family li7as built on lots 10
                  aad 11 but checking the m~p I find that the presert
		~		~	location of the West house was not a part of the
  	5~			original town of Philadelphia. Lot 18 is t-rhere tle ~urch
                  of God is now located, which until recently ~ras the











      building that housed the Presbyterian Church.Lot~ 4~
	4~ and 47 have al.lays be~n designated as the ton 9~ar
      and lot 28 the old home of John Thompson. I h~vc found
	many errors in other references I have ex3~ined as ~ the
	exact location of each lot. Using the original map Ifbd
	th~t the prescnt d3y pogt office, Thompson's store, ~nd
	 Ihites storc located on lot 48, the Neal's on lots 49and
	50, the B3ptist Church and parsonag~ on lots 51, 52, and
	53, and the *iley ~cCrary residence on lots 54 and ~ and
	John Tillery residence on lot 56, ~7hich ~a8 the 13st
	lot be laid out in that direction. I ~ould say that
	lots 60 - 67 ~ould presently be o~ned by the follo--~ing	~		2
      pcrsons~ Vastan ~ayman, ~rs, H.E. ~lrtin, and ~r.
	La~7rence Scott ~ith part of the land no~ 0~7ned by the
	railroad and also p3rt of the land used to m.~ke the
	curve in the ro~d. The original m~p had no curve in		;~
	that p~rticular road.

	   The following has been taken from Goodspeed
	History of_ Tennessee. It is an accollnt or record
      (lL' the beginning of ~l;]~ hi~ ~nd Jas published
	about 1890.

                                                                   ~~
         In the fall of 1821 or 1822 a to~n ~ s laid
	off six miles south-~7est of Blair's Ferry by ~JilliL~m
	Knox and Jacob Pe~rson and n~med by them Philadelphi~,
	~-~hich at the time ~as in Monroe County. Among
	the first settlers ~ere Jacob Grimmett~ Stephen
	Bond, ~.Jilli.~m Reynolds, George Yokem, D3niel Prig
	more, H~rdy Jones, ~nd J3mes ~come. The first
     store ~r~3s opened by Rob~rt Bro~-rder. In 1824 lh[organ	~	~
      3nd J3cobs of Knoxville cstablished a store with,
	S. H. Cr wley 3S ma~ager. The first hotels trere	~~
      op~ratcd by Robert Carden ~d Captain J Imes I~ ddy.
	Carden w?8 al80 the first bl1cksmith. Capt3in J lmes
	Dodd r~n a sti~ll - house 3nd Louis P ~tterson r ~n a
	t3n - yard. The latter u3s succeeded by i~ob_rt
	Shugart, to J. D. Jones, to Eli Clevel nd. In 1821
	a grist mill ~73.s built by J 3cob Pear60n. Ten to
	fifteen ye~rs lfter 1840 the to~m ~as -~t it's highest
	pe~ ~nd 1 large amount of business ~s c3rried
	on. Some merchmts lt this time were R.R. Cleve
	l~nd~ James Chestnut, E. E. Edt7 rds, hugh Sliith, -~nd
	John St nfield.	,

          The first church uas Presbyterian ~nd u s built,
      in 1822 or 1823. It ~7as 3~ small fr~e structure ~nd s~od 
               where the graveyard now is. The flrst prea~her wa,9 Dr.
               Issac Anderson of Maryville. A few y~ars later theBaptist
               erected a house which was used till the building of the
               present one. Eli Cleveland and Richard Talia--
               ferro were the first preachers. The Methodists
               didn~t erect a church till about 1850, but a
               congregation had been or~sanized many years before. 
                  In 1865 the Union Pilot, a radical Republicalr.ew
              spaper was started in Philadelphia by M.L. Black_                burn and was later moved to Loudon.

E				,		  Most of the information I have used from Good
						speed seems to be correct. Concerning the grist
						mill of Pearson the Roane County Court Minute Book
               1823-1826 on page thirteen makes the following state 
				~;		ment;

                     On tkepetition of Jacob Pearson it is orderedby
                 the court that he have leave to tende a grest Mill
                 at Philadelphia in the County of Roane and that he
                 be subject to all gaid restrictions and ~titled to
                 all the privileges as owner of the said mill are
                 imposed or confered by the Statutes in such case
                 made and provided.                   Also from the sE~se book I found the following; 
	j					  Robert Cannon tendered his resignatio as commissioner
						of school land which was received by the court.

			j~			  Littleberry Roberts is appointed a commissioner,
		,				of school land for the 16th suit in the first fractional
						township of the 2nd range East of the Meridian in the
					-	town of Robert Cannon Resigned.

                  The following two items were taken from the Monree_
                ounty Chancery Minute Book 1832-1842, pages l83 and 235. 
			j			    Alligon Frizzell vs Cannon and Nelson
      a	    Complaint files his bill of injunction in an open
		court; and his ordered by the chancellor that the in
		junctions issue as prayed said Bill on Complaints entering
		into bond with security as required by law.

		The following is a list of names copied from the
		Cannon and Nelson Ledger of 1836-1838. The list is
               complete with a few exceptions because some of the
