Starting Nov 13th
thru Dec 18th 2021, we will be open on Saturdays from 11am to
3pm. We are closed on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Researchers will
be available during the hours of 11am to 3pm starting on January
8, 2022.
If you plan to be
in the area and would like help researching your family lines
please call 423-526-5737 and leave a message or email
[email protected]
with the lines you would like to research.
POWELL
VALLEY
COMMUNITY CENTER
A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION SERVING COMMUNITY
David Burnette, President (865) 755-4810
Dan Manning, Vice President(423) 869-4408
Barbara Murray, Secretary/Treasurer (423) 258-0634
The
POWELL
VALLEYCOMMUNITY CENTER
is located at
255 Powell Valley School Lane,
Off Old Hwy 63,
Speedwell,
TN
37870 adjacent to
PowellValley
Elementary School.
The Center was built in 1952 and is maintained and operated
by volunteers. We are doing our best to keep this wonderful
building in good shape. It’s a great place for meetings,
showers, family reunions and a perfect venue for a wedding!
While we have been blessed to add a new roof , new heating
and air conditioning, we are in great need of insulation for
the roof, new windows, new door, gutter repair and interior
paint. A newer refrigerator, stove and cabinets were all
donated in the last few years.
We plan to host community yard sale fundraisers in the
future. The past yard sales were very successful. In
addition to being a venue available for private and
community events the Community Center also hopes to become a
focal point for disaster relief for the west
ClaiborneCounty
area.
Monetary donations for the Community Center insulation,
guttering and supplies can be mailed to
Powell
ValleyCommunity Center,
c/o Treasurer,
680 Jones Ridge Rd,
Speedwell, TN 37870. Donated items can be
picked up if you will call (423) 258-0634
To Rent the center for your holiday event, call (423)
258-0634.
GOD BLESS YOU
The 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as part of Col. John F.
DeCourcey's 26th Brigade, marched south from their stronghold at
Cumberland Gap toward the small town of Tazewell, Tennessee, on
August 2, 1862.
The purpose of their expedition was to find and acquire forage and
supplies for the Federal garrison holding Cumberland Gap. During
several days of foraging and extended trips further south of
Tazewell, some periodic skirmishes with Rebel cavalry were
encountered but the troops were successful in filling their wagons
with much needed food and hay for their animals.
Col. DeCourcey knew a large Confederate force was camped south of
the Clinch River, not too distant from Tazewell, however, did not
anticipate any major engagement would take place. On the Wednesday
morning of August 6, however, DeCourcey would be confronted by a
vastly superior Rebel force commanded by Col. Thomas Hart Taylor.
Be
a part of this first annual event!
FEATURES /
AMENITIES
DIRECTIONS
·Firewood
and straw for camps
·Off
Old Kentucky Road in Tazewell (follow signs from Hwy 33)
·307-661
Old Kentucky Rd Tazewell, TN (no 911 address for the event site)
·Saturday
evening supper
·30+
Acres perfect for a reenacting: a spring, open ground, woods,
etc.
·Convenient
to the town of Tazewell
REENACTOR
REGISTRATION
·$3
Registration Fee. No Walk-on Increase. Pay on-site
·All
branches of service are welcome. More on bounties, etc., to
come
·longitude-36.449853
·$50
bounty to the first 4 registered artillery pieces
·latitude
-83.559825
·Contact
Kevin Wolfe, president of the Claiborne County Historical and
Genealogical Society and 1st
lieutenant of the 63rd Tenn. Vol. Inf.
Plans are underway for the second phase of the
restoration of the OLD Jail!
The re-pointing on the bricks and mortar on the chimney,
south side and the front of the building has been done.
The north and back side of the building is the next to
be done in 2014.
This work is being funded in part with funds from the
Historical Preservation Fund under an agreement with the
National Park Service and the Tennessee Historical
Commission.
We are grateful for the grant but our fundraising
efforts have just begun. To continue to receive grants
we need to raise matching funds for continuing
restoration. Please send donations to: PO Box 32,
Tazewell, TN 37879 or call our office: 423-526-5737 for
more information.
Debra Fultz, Administrative Assistant
Claiborne County Historical & Genealogy Society
Kevin Wolfe. President
Sheri Wolfe, Vice President
Carolyn Lambert, Treasurer
Debra Fultz, Administrative Assistant
Bill Lambert, Volunteer-Research
PROGRESS!!
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on each image below to view full size and use your
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The photo above
and to the right are the latest improvements
to the Old Jail (November 2013)
"Research assistance
now available in house"
We are proud to
announce that the society now has a research volunteer in the
office on Sunday
from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. Our volunteer are working on gathering
information on all families with ties to Claiborne and
surrounding counties. You can email for research help:
[email protected].
The CCHGS
Veterans display area is done. We still have room
for more pictures of Veterans from Claiborne County from every war and every branch of the military.
If you have any pictures you are willing to send us
copies of (they will not be returned so please
send picture quality copies) please include their
name and a brief description Including, The War they
served in, Dates, Ranks, Branch of Military, etc.
We would like to honor these
service men and women in our building and your help
would be greatly appreciated.
Please send all submissions to P.O. Box 32 Tazewell, TN 37879.
Thank you.
We are looking for
pictures and/or information on the two theatres that use to be in Claiborne
County. These were the Cumberland Theatre and the Star Theatre. If anyone
has pics or info please contact us.
PLEASE DO
NOT post Historical or
Genealogical questions or requests on the Guestbook. If you have a
research or historical question and would like our in
house researchers to personally reply please email your
request to:
[email protected]
The Claiborne County
Historical and Genealogical Society
