Graysville, Tennessee Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==History== [[File:Graysville Academy, 1895.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Graysville Academy, established in 1892 in Graysville, was a [[Seventh-day Adventist]] institution that was later to become [[Southern Adventist University]].]] Graysville is named for William Gray, an early settler who was appointed postmaster in 1875. The town expanded in the 1880s, when the arrival of the railroad brought coal extraction industries to the area. During this period, the Dayton Coal and Iron Company established a major operation at Graysville. [[Coal]] mined nearby was converted into [[coke (fuel)|coke]], which in turn was used to fuel two blast furnaces to produce [[pig iron]]. This operation continued until the [[Great Depression]] brought about a general collapse in the industry in the 1930s.<ref name=evans>E. Raymond Evans, "Graysville," ''An Encyclopedia of East Tennessee'' (Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, 1981), pp. 223-224.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page