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===Early years=== In 1775, pioneers [[Daniel Boone]] and [[William Bean]] had first observed the [[Holston River]] valley in Grainger County after crossing the gap at [[Clinch Mountain]] during a [[longhunter|long hunting]] excursion.<ref name="family">{{cite web |last1=Coffey |first1=Ken |title=The First Family of Tennessee |url=http://graingertnhistory.com/story_2/#more-5 |website=Grainger County Historic Society |publisher=Thomas Daugherty |access-date=August 20, 2020 |date=October 19, 2012 |archive-date=August 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811133037/http://graingertnhistory.com/story_2/#more-5 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After fighting in the [[American Revolutionary War]] one year later, Bean was awarded {{convert|3000|acre|km2}} in the area he previously surveyed for settlement during his excursion with Boone.<ref name="family"/> Bean would later construct a four-room cabin at this site, which served as his family's home, and as an inn for prospective settlers, [[fur trade]]rs, and longhunters.<ref name="barksdale">{{cite book |last1=Barksdale |first1=Kevin |title=The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession |date=July 11, 2014 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=9780813150093 |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SJUfBgAAQBAJ&dq=Bean+Station&pg=PA19 |access-date=December 3, 2020 |language=en |format=E-book}}</ref> Grainger County would be established into a county from [[Knox County, Tennessee|Knox]] and [[Hawkins County, Tennessee|Hawkins]] counties by the [[North Carolina]] state legislature on April 22, 1796,<ref name="soil-nrcs"/> the year Tennessee became the sixteenth state of the United States.<ref name="tehc">Kevin Collins, "[http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=565 Grainger County]," ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture''. Retrieved: October 20, 2013</ref> It is named for Mary Grainger Blount,<ref name="origin">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n140 141]}}</ref> the wife of [[William Blount]], making it the only county in Tennessee named for a woman.<ref name="origin"/> In 1801, [[Rutledge, Tennessee|Rutledge]] was selected as the county seat.<ref name="soil-nrcs"/> Anderson, Claiborne, Campbell, Hamblen, Hancock, Scott and Union counties were formed from portions of the original Grainger County following its reduction in land size between 1801 and 1870.<ref name="archivespage">{{Cite web|url=http://www.graingerarchives.org|title=Grainger County Archives|website=www.graingerarchives.org|access-date=March 10, 2018}}</ref>
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