Editing Whitwell, Tennessee (section)

==History==
The town that became Whitwell was originally known as Cheekville, but renamed "Whitwell" for [[Thomas Whitwell]], a British metallurgist, inventor and co-founder of the Southern States Coal, Iron and Land Company, who was killed in an accident in his own ironworks in Thornaby in 1878.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Adler|first1=Dorothy|title=British Investment in American Railways, 1834-1898|date=1970|publisher=Charlottesville University Press|page=124}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Thomas Whitwell – Founder of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers|url=http://heritage.stockton.gov.uk/people/thomas-whitwell-founder-of-the-cleveland-institution-of-engineers/|website=Stockton On Tees Borough Council Archive|publisher=Heritage Stockton|accessdate=April 8, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|authorlink1=Mira Wilkins|last1=Wilkins|first1=Mira|title=The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofforeign0000wilk|url-access=registration|date=1989|publisher=Harvard University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofforeign0000wilk/page/294 294]}}</ref><ref name="University of Alabama Press">{{cite book|last1=Armes|first1=Ethel|title=The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama|date=2011|publisher=University of Alabama Press|pages=385–386}}</ref> Whitwell was incorporated as a city in 1956, having grown as a mining town due to the abundance of coal in the mountains near the town.  In 1981, there was a [[No. 21 Mine explosion|major mining accident]] when 13 coal miners were killed in an explosion. A full list of the names of those killed in the mine explosion is on a monument at Whitwell High School. Whitwell also has an annual [[Labor Day]] celebration that has been celebrated for over 50 consecutive years.<ref>[http://cityofwhitwell.com/ Whitwell City website]</ref>