Editing Grainger County, Tennessee (section)

===Tourism and leisure===
[[File:Cherokee Reservoir - German Creek - Bean Station, TN.jpg|left|thumb|[[Cherokee Lake]] near [[Bean Station, Tennessee|Bean Station]]]]

By the late 19th century, a tourism industry had flourished around the [[mineral springs]] flowing from the Clinch Mountain range. The Tate Springs Resort complex located in the Bean Station region of the county, provided accommodations for tourists and business travelers alike until the [[Great Depression]]. It included mineral baths and waters, an enormous resort hotel, a swimming pool and bathhouse, a springhouse constructed as a gazebo, private cabins, and a golf course. After the Great Depression, the resort had closed and the property was given to local authorities. A children's home and school occupied the space of the hotel and cabins, until a major fire destroyed the entire hotel in the 1960s. Today, the [[Tate Springs Springhouse]], the bathhouse, and several cabins are what remains of the complex.<ref name="Collins"/>

Since the 1940s, the county's tourism and recreational industry nonetheless sparked once again after the Tennessee Valley Authority's creation of Cherokee and Norris Lake in the southern and northern parts of the county respectively. Fishing, hiking, hunting, camping, golf, boating, water sports, and development of lakefront property seek to continue contributing to the county's economy.<ref name="Collins"/>