This western Mitchell County community was named for Major Jonathon Tipton III. Major Jonathon became embroiled in a 1784 dispute over the new state of Franklin. The dispute was actually between him and his older brother Colonel John Tipton and Colonel John Sevier,...
This Mitchell County community sits at the confluence of the right fork of Cane Creek and the left fork of Cane Creek, beneath Hawk Mountain. A post office here in the late 1800’s was known as Hawk Mine. The name comes from the abundance of hawks in the...
This central Mitchell County community was named about 1890 by Jonathon Burleson because men delighted in whitling away their time on the porch of the local general store in the evenings and on Saturdays. One day when such a crowd had gathered, Burleson lazily...
In 1947, Frank Griffith (1922-2012) and Farrell Tipton (1909-1977) became partners in a general store at Tipton Hill. Frank and Farrell were brothers-in-law; Farrell was married to Frank’s sister Blanche. The two men purchased the store from Joseph Tipton, Frank’s...
Catching the Clinchfield as it wound its way northbound up the mountains, or southbound to the piedmont was an easy task when passenger service was common. The railroad, which ran from coalfields of Elkhorn City, Kentucky to the textile mills of upstate South...
Lunday is a community in west central Mitchell County on the Toe River. The elevation is 2,346 above sea level. Was a stop on the Clinchfield Railroad during passenger train days until the 1950s. Famous for it’s “house on the rocks” and the swinging...
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