The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Spring City began as a stop along the Cincinnati Southern Railroad in the 1870s. The town was originally named Sulphur Springs, because of the mass amount of sulphur in the water. Sometime later it became "Rheaville," and later became incorporated with nearby Rhea Springs, and took on the name Rhea Springs. Due to an explosion, much of the town flooded or burnt, and the town relocated to its current location and was renamed Spring City, in honor of the original settlement, Sulphur Springs. The original location now lies at the bottom of a nearby section of Watts Bar Lake. Spring City thrived as a railroad shipping hub during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its first railroad depot, a simple wooden building constructed in 1879, burned in 1892, and was replaced by a larger one. This second depot was in turn replaced by the current depot, which was completed by the Southern Railwa…
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Spring’s history is told.
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Spring, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Spring is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Spring has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Oak Grove Methodist Church in Spring City, 6.5 miles away.
Spring and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (7). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.