EARLIEST NAME
INTERMEDIATE NAME
CURRENT NAME
Paint Camp Mountain
Priest’s Mountain
Webb’s Mountain
Cedar Creek (in contradistinction to Big
Cedar Creek)
Elk Garden Creek
North Fork of Cedar Creek
Elk Garden Creek
South Fork of Cedar Creek
Loop Creek
Priest’s Creek
Dry Branch
Ash Log Branch
Broadwine Branch
Little Rye Grass Mountain
The Loop
Priest’s Valley
Dry Branch Valley
E – The only likely candidate for the
theoretical classically educated French settler who changed the
name of Little Rye Grass Mountain to the Loop is one Andrew
Hebourn who had a warrant for LO 52-155.
That grant was awarded to Samuel Taylor in 1797, which
matches well with the date of the settlement of St. Marie on the
Clinch at St. Paul in 1791.
This settlement was made by French Royalists fleeing the
French Revolution.
He likely is the same individual as Andrew Haburn, who is
documented in the Castlewood census.
His wife was Eunice Hendricks, daughter of Thomas and
Sarah Van Hook Hendricks.
F – The settlers extracted salt peter (KNO3
or potassium nitrate) from a cave just east of the intersection
of routes # 656 and # 80 on the land of William Webb LO 28-133.
It was the main ingredient in black powder.
There was a larger Salt Peter Cave somewhere on Dry
Branch.
G - Thomas Johnson, who
owned four land grants on Little Rye Grass Mountain (now called
‘The Loop’), was a land speculator. He served in the local
militia during the Revolution. His official capacity within the
militia was as a ‘German translator’. This was not due to a need
to communicate with Hessian prisoners of war, but due to the
fact of a large German population within the local militia who
were not English speakers. He was the second husband of Fanny
Dickenson Scott, who was a sister to the first County Clerk of
Russell County, and of Humphrey Dickenson, who was shot by the
Cherokee on a rock at Gist’s Ford at Castlewood, and whose first
husband, Archibald Scott, was killed by Chief Benge on Wallin's
Creek. Late in life Johnson and Fanny moved to Mountain City,
Tennessee in what is now Johnson County, named after him. The
first court in Johnson County Tennessee was held in his house.
Johnson County claims to be the burial place of Fannie, but
there are both a
