Editing Newport, Tennessee (section)

===1900s===
[[File:Newport-depot-1939-tn1.jpg|right|210px|thumb|Newport Depot, photographed by [[Marion Post Wolcott]] in 1939]]

By the 1890s, the population of Newport had grown to 900.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> While Alexander Arthur's logging venture failed, industry continued to find its way to the town. In 1895, the A.C. Lawrence Leather Company established what eventually become one of the world's largest [[Tanning (leather)|tanneries]] in Newport.<ref>Rolfe Godshalk (editor), ''Newport'' (Newport, Tennessee: Clifton Club, 1970), Appendix I-II.</ref> Three years later, brothers James and John Stokely founded the Stokely Brothers Company (now [[Stokely-Van Camp]]'s) to can vegetables they grew throughout the French Broad valley.<ref>Wilma Dykeman, ''The French Broad'' (New York: Rinehart, 1955), 208.</ref> Newport native [[Ben Hooper]] served as governor of Tennessee from 1911 to 1915.

Carson Springs, {{convert|6|mi|0}} southwest of Newport, developed around William Wilson's tavern and stagecoach terminal in the early 19th century. Later in the century, C.P. Peterson and wife built and operated the Peterson Hotel.<ref>Carolyn Sakowski, ''Touring the East Tennessee Backroads'' (Winston-Salem: J.F. Blair, 1993), 240-241.</ref> As the mineral-rich mountain springs of Appalachia were thought to have health-restoring qualities, Carson Springs developed into an early tourist resort. The establishment of the [[Great Smoky Mountains National Park]] in 1934 brought a still greater influx of tourists to Newport, but nothing like the tourism explosion that occurred in neighboring [[Sevier County, Tennessee|Sevier County]].

Kiffin Yates Rockwell, who was born in Newport in 1892, joined the [[French Foreign Legion]] during [[World War I]]. After being wounded, Rockwell joined one of the Legion's aviation corps, known as the [[Lafayette Escadrille]], and would become the first American pilot to shoot down an enemy plane in combat.<ref>[http://www.hendersonville.com/news/smithmcdowellrockwell.html Exhibit Remember Kiffin Yates Rockwell, Local WWI Aviator and WNC Resident]." Hendersonville.com Community News, 1999. Retrieved: September 14, 2007.</ref>