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Austin, J. G. (Gobe) Scott, W. D. Brown, A. L. Goff, J. W. and Wes Patterson, Charlie Austin, lessee Holmes, J. M. and Tom Brasher, and Jim McClanahan. The Farmers State Bank was organized in 1906 with P. Woodward Holmes as cashier. It grew from the start in assets, service and strength and in the confidence of the public and government officials. Our Year of Near Destruction” was 1917. On May 27, a tornado swept away the east end of town, and on October 16, ”The Great Blaze” took out all 12 business houses, the post office, barbershop, grist mill, and five residences. But the town wasn’t born to die so soon, and within months it was built back better; and within a few years the disasters were memories. Yet, in 1926, a second fire went through the east business district with much destruction. The first automobile here was a Model T Ford bought in 1914 by J. A. McClanahan. Within weeks, Drs. Keeton and Wylie had like cars. The first telephone service was installed by the Stantonville Telephone Company in 1906. Later the Peoples Telephone Company was organized for which W. A. Austin was the long manager. Monthly dues were 15 cents. Scotts Hill was incorporated in 1921 with Tom McKenzie as Mayor. Supplanting a few Delco home lighting plants, the first public electric service came to Scotts Hill in 1934. The first organized church was the Christian Church which in 1901 began to use the name of Church of Christ. The first meeting house was erected by men and boys in 1888 on the site of a later brick building, now the school’s Home Economics quarters. The present meeting house was erected in 1959-60 on the site of the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Wylie. Methodism began in this area mostly through efforts of Romulus S. Swift, an eminent evangelist who came here before the Civil War. In 1885-86 the congregation moved from Bethel to a small frame structure on the present site. In 1943-44 a pretty concrete building replaced the long frame structure which had supplanted the first small house in the 1890’s. The Holiness (Pentecost) Church had its beginning in 1915-16 after tent meetings. A house was the first meeting place but in 1917 a small frame house was erected on land given by the John Thompsons. In 1931 a new concrete black building replaced the small frame structure. The building was bricked in” and modernized a few years ago. The first organized Baptist Church, here came into existence in 1947 when right members began meeting in the home of the late Mrs. A. A. Tolley. A meeting house was completed in the 1950 ' s and in the past two years, the house has been enlarged and modernized. And so is and has been for 150 years, Scotts Hill, Tennessee. 13
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The area with its virgin timber looked favorable for staking out land claims, and they made camp by a fine spring. After looking around for a few days, and with Indians just gone, they decided that this was the place! They hacked trees to denote their first claims to surrounding .lands and rushed back to bring their families to the new area and build cabins before winter set in. The route here, from old records, was from Anson County by Charlotte and Ashville; over the mountains to Newport; then by Knoxville, Sparta, Colombia, Clifton, and on here. The long hard trip took over a month each way and the caravan coming back was made up of two-wheeled carts, covered wagons, oxens, horses, dogs, and a few cattle and hogs. The relatively pretentious log residence of Charles Austin was thrown together enough to house his family of five children before hard winter came. Farm lands were soon laid out for the settlers. Coming with the Austins and soon after were families with such names as Scott, Maners, Jones, Duck, Holms, Murphy, O ' Neal, Eason, Turner, Clenney, Medline, ect. The growth of the little nameless settlement was slow due to no transportation or communi¬ cation to speak of. But at length, when a road was clear from Clifton to Lexington, more and more settlers came, making their homes on or nearer the big road and shifting the first settlement toward what was to be Scotts Hill. The first merchant was Micajah (Cager) Scott, whose trading post was atop the hill across from the present Methodist Church and above a fine spring. Due to his honesty and store location, the hamlet, in the 1840 ' s took the name Scotts Hill - the only such name in 150 years in all the United States. Now the town was growing though meal and flour were ground by ox, mule, or water power, mail service was very poor, medicine was largely home-made, lighting was by candles, washing was done at the spring, and cooking was in fireplaces of stick and din chimneys. Brought-on goods, mostly sugar and coffee, tobacco, and calico and domestic dry goods came by steamboat to Swallow Bluff or Point Pleasant to be hauled here by farmers who had hauled a few crossties to the river for ready cash-shipped for use on expanding rail¬ roads. But times were enlivened by log-rollings, corn huskings, and square dances. Our first post office began operation on August 1, 1850, in a corner of Cager’s store, and with Dr. William Brigance as postmaster. War clouds were gathering, however, and this area was not passed up. Most people around here were Union sympathizers, but there were enough Southern loyalists to make things exciting. Jesse Holmes had opened a general store before the war and served as postmaster during the war. Ephraim Austin, soon after, built a big residence and also a big store and water¬ mill. During the 1870 ' s and 1880 ' s, stagecoaches ran through here on the Clifton-Lexington mn, but a few years later railroads came through Lexington and Warriors Bluff, thus sup¬ planting stagecoaches. Doctors here during the 1860-1900 era were Pleas W. Austin, William H. Beville, Sam P. Winston, W. B. Keeton, Tav Rogers, Robert Keeton, and Robert L. Wylie. An 1886 listing of merchants here was: Jesse Holmes and Son, Brown and Co., and Wood¬ ward Austin and Co. About this time Dr. Frank Austin, dentist, teacher, and promoter, built the large frame Central Hotel as gay socially as it was commercial, until it finally went up in the big fire of 1917. Merchants here around the turn of the century included: Asa Woodward, Henry and Ed
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