history

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General History

Cowan, 1852 to 1899: Three Part History by Jim and Jenny Lou Brock

Cowan: Its History and Heritage: by Andrew Rittenberry

Glimpses of Cowan: Lists of businesses and professionals in 1890, 1924, and 1978

The Way We Worked: by Tom Knowles

Churches: Closed, Disbanded, Pre-merger and Predecessor Churches

Boiling Fork Baptist Church (1822-?)

Cowan Church of God (1966-1974)

Cowan Christian Church (1875-1922, predecessor to Cowan Church of Christ)

Cowan Methodist Church (Founded 1947, merged into Cowan Fellowship Church)

Cowan Methodist Episcopal Church (1842-?)

Cowan Presbyterian Church (Founded 1907, merged into Cowan Fellowship Church)

Rayburn Chapel A.M.E. Church (1889-1997)

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (1848-?)

St. Saviour's Mission (1894-1899, predecessor to St. Agnes' Episcopal Church)

Churches: Active and Existing Churches

Cowan Church of Christ (Founded 1923, successor to Cowan Christian Church)

Cowan Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Founded 1886)

Cowan Fellowship Church (Merger of Cowan Methodist Church and Cowan Presbyterian Church)

Cowan First Baptist Church (Founded 1906)

First Church of the Nazarene (Founded 1917)

Goshen Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Founded 1810, Franklin County's oldest church)

Greenhaw Baptist Church (Founded 1938)

Mt. Sinai Baptist Church (Founded 1929)

New Hope Church of God in Christ (Founded 1982)

Old Army Chapel (Today the home of Hope Baptist Church)

St. Agnes' Episcopal Church (Founded 1899, successor to St. Saviour's Mission)

City Departments/Services

Cowan Board of Public Utilities

Cowan City Government

Cowan Fire Department

Cowan Library

Cowan Montgomery Cemetery

Cowan Police Department

Cowan Street Department

Civil War

Observations of a Yankee in 1865: Nashville to Chattanooga - Account of a Journey Southward

Communities, Neighborhoods, and Hamlets

The Bottom - Oldest black neighborhood, a DH&G housing development

Centennial - Rural community between Cowan and Holders Cove

Chocolate Row - One of three DH&G housing development

City Limits - business district on the west side of town

Frogtown - small neighborhood near railroad swamp

Greenhaw - large farming community between Cowan and Decherd

Hawkins Cove - farming cove at the foot of Sewanee Mountain

Hawkins Hill - original site of Major William Russell's home, which was Franklin County's First Court House

Keith Cove - farming cove near Cowan

Lakeview - DH&G housing development on the mountain between Cowan and Keith Springs

Mars Hill/Morris Hill - Historic black neighborhood

McAmis Lane - Cowan's Hollywood connection

Miller Cove - farming community between Cowan and Hawkins Cove

Slagtown - DH&G housing development.

Vanderbilt Drive - group of home built during the post-WWII housing boom.

Hospitality (Hotels and Restaurants)

The History of Hospitality in Cowan: including the University House Hotel, The Franklin House (a.k.a. the Parker Hotel), Marquette Hotel (a.k.a. the D, H, & G boarding house), and The Franklin-Pearson House

Cowan: Gateway to the Summer Resorts

Corner House

Memories of Copeland's Cafe

Memories of Cowan Cafe

Industry

Cumberland Portland Cement / Marquette Cement Plant (article forthcoming)

The Davidson, Hicks and Greene Company

Forgy Brothers Department Store

The History of Telecommunications in Cowan

Major William Russell

Franklin County's First Court House

Why A Log Cabin?