|
〕 | blank1_info = | website = | footnotes = }} Joppa is an unincorporated community in rural west-central Grainger County, Tennessee, United States.〔 It rests below (Joppa Mountain ), a subrange located at the southern base of the 150 mile (240 km) long Clinch Mountain Ridge, offering views of five U.S. States. It is part of the Morristown, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area. Nestled in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, the Joppa community is a quilted patchwork of rolling farms, lush woodlands, scenic water flows and mountainous terrain that attract many outdoor enthusiasts. ==History== Joppa is situated along the Federal Road (US-11W - Rutledge Pike), formerly known as the Old Lee Highway, which connected New Orleans and Washington, D.C. The road intersected the Old Kentucky Road (now US-25E - Dixie Highway) at Bean Station, just east of Rutledge.〔Kevin Collins, (Grainger County ). ''The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2002''. Retrieved: February 19, 2008.〕 Early during the American Civil War, Confederate cannons were mounted at the Powder Spring Gap on the Clinch Mountain Ridge facing the Clinch Valley in order to prevent Union forces crossing from the northwest side of the ridge to the Federal Road and the Richland Valley to the southeast. As the war progressed, Confederate soldiers engaged in guerrilla warfare tactics from numerous vantage points along the Clinch Mountain Ridge including the rocks and caves around Joppa Mountain's summit at Buzzard Rock where they extracted salpetre, one of the ingredients of gunpowder, from the droppings of buzzards. This guerrilla warfare largely paralyzed Grainger County during the American Civil War. Confederate General James Longstreet, who had earlier failed to wrest Knoxville from Union forces, on December 14, 1863, in what became known as the Battle of Bean's Station, attacked a Union detachment that had been pursuing him. The Confederates failed to exploit the element of surprise, and the Union forces were able to hold out until reinforcements arrived. While Longstreet was victorious, Union forces were able to retreat through Joppa en route to fortifications at Blaine, and Longstreet subsequently abandoned the assault and continued his retreat from Knoxville eastward to winter quarters at Russellville. He rejoined the Army of Northern Virginia the following Spring.〔The National Park Service, "(Battle Summary: Bean's Station, Tennessee )." Retrieved: February 19, 2008.〕 The Old Joppa School (known today as Joppa Elementary School) was built circa 1878 and burned in approximately 1899. In 1900, a second building was built to accommodate grades 1-8, until it was demolished in 1966 to make way for a third building that was built in 1967. In 1881, Sunday school service was started in the Old Joppa School. On December 26, 1921 John and Mary Morgan deeded 1/4 acre of land, and in 1922 the Church (known today as Joppa United Methodist Church) was organized. On May 4, 1924 the current Church building was dedicated. In approximately 1894, Professor P.E. Aston, who taught at the former Sulphur Springs Academy, approached the Tennessee State Legislature, and was subsequently successful in having the name of Spring House Post Office (1845–1893) changed to Joppa. The post office was then moved from a location near Ellis Farm on Blaines Chapel Road to the J.H. Hammer Store near the intersection of U.S. Route 11W and Joppa Mountain Road, where it was then changed to the name of Joppa Post (1933–1950) until its closure. In April 2012, the Grainger County Board of Education authorized negotiations to purchase the old Joppa Post store for possible future use as a drip field for the sewer system at Joppa Elementary School. On June 18, 2012, the Grainger County BOE completed the purchase of the old Joppa Post store for $28,500, and soon after the structure was razed. Cherokee Lake, created by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1941 with the completion of Cherokee Dam, is located just southeast of Joppa. Hang Gliding from Joppa (Clinch) Mountain was (and still is) the goal of many hang gliding enthusiasts around the world according to the president of one of the largest hang gliding associations in the United States. Hang gliding on Joppa (Clinch) Mountain started in the mid-1970s and enjoyed considerable notoriety until the late 1980s. The 1979 USHPA regional competition was held on Joppa (Clinch) Mountain, which is also the site of the Tennessee Flex Wing Free Flight Record of 68.3 miles by Ellis Newkirk. The Locals describe the weekends around the Joppa & Powder Springs communities as being full of activities with spectators lined along U.S. Route 11W (Rutledge Pike) & TN State Route 131 as hang gliders would launch from Buzzard Rock, on the Joppa Mountain summit, and glide over the Poor, Richland, and Clinch Valleys landing at various local landing zones or destinations as far away as Virginia, Kentucky, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joppa, Tennessee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|