Dandridge. Hexagon house. Built in 1905 by Sam Bettis, of Dandridge. Currently owned by Frances Mitchell. Located at 226 E. Meeting Street, near the intersection of Hill Street.

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Sources: Chuck Atchley. Ellen Puerzer. Robert Jarnagin, Jefferson County Historian. LeeAnn at the Chamber of Commerce.
Entered: June, 2001.
Updated October, 2009
Dandridge. Hexagon (needs verification) log house. Built before 1905, also by Sam Beattis. Stood off Killion Road. Torn down around 1999. A spring fed pond was located near the house. The pond would rise during heavy rains and cut the house off from the road, as can be seen in one of the photographs below.

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Sources: Ellen Puerzer. Robert Jarnagin, Jefferson County Historian. LeeAnn at the Chamber of Commerce.

Shieldstown. Later Knoxville. Octagon house. The hamlet of Shieldsville was established by John Howard Shields by 1859. The Shields family lived in an octagon mansion at 1640 Magnolia Avenue, today the site of Pellissippi College.

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The piece above, from the Knoxville News Sentinel, May 9,1948, contains mention of the house.

Sources: Ellen Puerzer. Jamie Osborn, Knox Country Public Library.
Entered: April, 2010.

Jackson. Round house. Built in or before 1870. Located on Short Street and the intersection of Main Street. Also next to the Mobile & Ohio RR. A segment of an 1870 map of Jackson shows the house at the center of the image.
Source: R. Kline
Entered: August, 2002.

Rives City. Octagon barbershop. Built about 1894. Located at High and North Church Streets. Added to the NRHP in 1975, when it was already vacant.

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Source: E. Puerzer.
Entered: January, 2010.
Union City. Octagon house. Built about 1870. Now gone. Originally a one story octagon, and later made square. Located at College and Railroad Streets.
Source: R. Kline
Entered: September, 2002.
Union City. Octagon house. Built about 1880. Nothing else known.
Source: R. Kline
Entered: September, 2002.

Gallatin. Octagon house. Built about 1850 by Colonel Thomas Boyers. Located on Franklin Street. Thomas Boyers served in the Confederate army, and founded the Gallatin News-Examiner newspaper. Demolished in the 1970s to make way for low-rent apartments.

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Sources: R. Kline. Ellen Puerzer. Trent Hanner, reference librarian.
Entered: October, 2007.
Updated November, 2009