Editing Harriman, Tennessee (section)

===20th century===
[[Image:Harriman-hosiery-mills-tn1.gif|thumb|left|Harriman Hosiery Mills in 1940]]

In spite of the East Tennessee Land Company's collapse, Harriman continued to grow, although its growth was very gradual. The [[American Temperance University]] was established in 1894, and operated out of the East Tennessee Land Company's abandoned headquarters.<ref name=benhart2 /> In 1929, the combination of the [[Wall Street Crash of 1929|stock market crash]] and a devastating [[flood]] of the Emory River wiped out much of the city's industry. A [[paper mill]] and two [[hosiery]] mills provided the largest share of jobs in the city through the rest of the twentieth century, with the paper mill (a [[MeadWestvaco|Mead Corporation]] property) and the hosiery companies (Harriman Hosiery, formerly a Burlington Corp. plant, and independent Roane Hosiery) operating into the 1980s.

[[Image:424-walden-house-tn1.jpg|thumb|Circa-1890s [[Queen Anne Style architecture (United States)|Queen Anne-style]] house in Cornstalk Heights]]

The city got a boost in the 1940s and 1950s from heavy automobile traffic along US-27, which was a primary route connecting the [[Great Lakes]] region with [[Florida]] before [[I-75]] was completed. The routing of Interstate 40 through southwestern Harriman connected the community more closely with Knoxville but never produced the kind of modern industrial development inside the town that community leaders expected.

The city, still quaint but clearly different now from its economic heyday, still shows considerable evidence of being a "planned community". Its streets still remain in its original grid pattern, as the collapse of the East Tennessee Land Company in 1893 "froze" the city in its original developmental state. There remains a considerable number of homes&mdash;especially in Cornstalk Heights&mdash;displaying [[Victorian architecture]] as well—many of which have been either painstakingly maintained or restored. The Temperance heritage was slow to depart. There was no liquor store in Harriman until 1992.