Craggie Hope, Tennessee is a small, unrelated rural community located on the CSX Transportation line (formerly the Louisville and Nashville Railroad) from Nashville to Memphis in southern Cheatham County, Tennessee. Its location is more or less 36Ã, Â ° 05? 40? N 87Ã, Â ° 08? 50? W .
At the beginning of the 21st century when all Tennessee communities joined are required to provide the state government with a 20-year "urban growth plan", the immediate communities of Kingston Springs were originally planned to include Craggie Hope in "urban growth limits." The South Cheatham Advocate newspaper published there reported that residents protested enough at a public meeting on the proposed limit that plans to include Craggie Hope in it had been abandoned. At the moment it is stated that the community has about 100 residents, or fewer; because society does not have formal restrictions because it is not a census-defined place, the accuracy of such numbers is debatable.
Craggie Hope is the site of Bethany Hills, a youth camp that deals with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). It was also previously the location of another camp, the "Fresh-Air Camp", an attempt to get children in the city center, especially those who are infected or susceptible to tuberculosis, out into the air of a healthier country. This has been the site of an attempt to build an atom veteran memorial in "Lovers' Leap", beautiful scenery in the Turnbull Creek valley which is also the site of serious and even fatal accidents, usually involving alcohol abuse.
According to April 23, 1872, Nashville Republican Banner, about 1870 James Woods, son of Robert Woods, sold his land on Franklin Road in Nashville and moved to Craggie Hope. When he moved there, it was just a scrub and he built the first house there. In 1872 the city has several residences, an elegant church house and school, shops and hotels, nearing completion "for accommodation for those seeking a healthy, fun summer resort with just as simple water as the world," in addition to being in distance of a mile or so from Kingston Springs, a resort community in itself.
James Woods's home on Franklin Road was burned by Federals sometime before December 9, 1864. His son, James Campbell Woods, who was a Confederate, fought in the Battle of Franklin and also the Battle of Nashville and was captured.
In the fall of 1865, James G. Wood moved to an uninhabited area near Kingston Springs, Tennessee and founded Craggie Hope which would become a popular summer resort in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. James Woods has joined the Confederate army at the age of 16 and has served with differences in Morton Battery. He was arrested at the Hood Retreat and taken to Camp Chase and after the war, the Woods family moved from their home in Nashville and settled on Turnbull Creek in what is now known as Craggie Hope.
The Woods and Campbell families stand out in early Nashville history; Mrs. Wood is a Campbell. Grandfather Mr. Wood, Robert Woods, started the first bank in Nashville, and Woods and Yeatman undertook the first iron stove foundry business in Nashville. Before moving to Nashville, the Woods family also lived in Winchester, Tennessee and their home there was also named "Craggie Hope" after Campbell's guesthouse in Scotland. The name of Craggie Hope was moved to a new and final home in Turnbull which has a cliff very similar to what he knew in Scotland. Therefore, the name of Craggie Hope was given to the summer resort town that will soon be in Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad by Ny. Elizabeth Campbell Woods in the autumn of 1866.
Mr. Robert Woods, grandfather, built one of Nashville's most famous houses, known as Belle Vue, in 1840. The house still stands today. Today, the entire section of Nashville is now known as Bellevue and is a shopping district in Nashville closest to residents of Craggie Hope.
In the early 1870s, Ny. Woods opened a hotel in Craggie Hope and it soon became a summer resort for the Nashvillians to avoid the springs in the country. The train depot next to the hotel makes it very convenient for travelers from Nashville. (The depot has been torn down though the picture remains.) He runs the hotel until his death in 1886 but continues to operate until after the new century after his death. A small part of the hotel with its original fireplace still exists without a bit of its former glory. Over the years the 32-room hotel was torn down part by part during World War II for much-needed framed timber and built into many nearby homes. Only a small part of the original structure is still near the railroad tracks. Unfortunately, most hotels from this era give up on fire or torn down for building materials. According to the Tennessee Archives, less than a dozen of these eras remain in Tennessee.
Treanor of Nashville moved to Turnbull Valley farmlands in the late 1800s and found that springs had medicinal qualities. He started the Willow Brook water company that exports hundreds of gallons of water throughout the country on a regular basis. The springs are added to the attraction of the resort. The Treanor family is very important to Craggie Hope. They bought a three thousand two hundred forty-seven acre (1,314 ha) treaty in 1885 from the Woods family. On it they run Treanors Mills. One produces wood, and other grains of grain. They also manage brick-making bricks. The six Treanor boys attended Montgomery Bell Academy and took the train to Nashville every day from the station at Craggie Hope. The factory was destroyed by fire in the early 1950s and the old Treanor house burned during the first week of December 1955. (Source, Nashville Banner, December 7, 1955 and Robert A. Miller, A Turnbull Trilogy, page 89, 2010.)
As a summer resort, there is the main hotel and then some beautiful and rustic huts that hold some of Nashville's most famous families. To the left of the main hotel is a Bennett-Hunter-Baxter hut made entirely of local chestnut wood including framing, interior and wood walls and walls. It was a summer home for the Nashville Treasurer R. A. Bennett's family, and the families of Paul Hunter and John Baxter. Some cottages remain today as the remains of the ever growing spa and resort community. The names given to the cottages include Hearts Ease, Brookside and Wren's Nest. Maple Shade is the most famous house in Craggie Hope, although its history is a bit unusual. It is actually made of two cottages of the era of the spa which was moved closely, circa 1915, to its present location and built on a dock with "dogs running" between them. Although not a full-scale hotel, it caters to guests who have memories of living there until World War II. Cottages in the back function as guest houses and one of them also survives. This is one of the few Inns left in Tennessee from that era and is in the process of being restored to be placed in a historic registry. Its distinctive architectural feature is its "dog trot" terrace design which is a 30 foot (9.1 m) square terrace connecting two sides of the house under a common roof that allows for optimal summer breezes through the entire room of the house. The house still has the original board and wall board lining the walls of battens and beads. It has been occupied for years by Nellie Irene who taught at the small school of Craggie Hope school from 1914 to 1935. The school building survives as a home today. In recent years, the house was occupied by his brothers, Georgia Hutton Treanor and his sister Mary Sutherland. (Source, Robert A. Miller, A Turnbull Trilogy, page 87, 2010.)
Georgie Hutton Treanor and her sister, Mary Sutherland, were featured in a Tennessean newspaper article on March 14, 1984, recalling the glorious days of Craggie Hope as a resort town. Locals remember how they live in three adjacent properties, and a sister always lives on the "hill" at any time, even if it means not attending another funeral. It's important that they never leave Maple Shade. (All three houses are being restored to preserve some of the community's historical interactions). The sisters are also known for ensuring that every child in the community receives toys at Christmas every year. The Tennessean article also mentions John W. Thomas Fresh Air Camp, which at one time was directed by Fannie Battle of the famous Nashville social worker and played an important role in the history of Craggie Hope Road. Children from the Nashville slums were brought there by train to enjoy the countryside and the fresh air provided. The boys' dormitory was built in 1909, and female dormitories soon followed. (Source, Robert A. Miller, Turnbull Trilogy ). After the Great Depression, it went through a series of private owners, and in 1944 was bought by the Christian Churches of Tennessee and currently operates as the Bethany Hills Camp. The article further mentions the beautiful United Methodist Church built in 1909 which has been the setting for many film and video projects that often air on national television.
At the bottom of the hill and under the railway from the old hotel is McLean Cottage, which is owned by Nashville I. F. McLean stove manufacturer from Arcade on 4th Avenue, Nashville. There is also Dr. The Pines hut. Van Sanders. Across the street from the hotel on the hill is the largest summer house, Pondok Pipi, belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Joel Cheek from the wealth of Maxwell House Coffee. Other lodges belonging to well known Nashville names include those occupied by Alex, Erwin and Dillard Goodpasture, T. W. Moore and family, Mrs. Will Trousdale, Mrs. John Webber and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis.
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References
- The Tennessean March 14, 1984
External links
- hometownlocator.com
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