Basically, this is a map of the valley between Oliver Springs, TN and Oak Ridge. The city of Oliver Springs is at the top, at the foot of Waldens Ridge, and Oak Ridge would be over the mountain at the bottom of the page. To the left would be present Harriman, to the right would be Clinton, TN.

This plat was made by Mose D. Butler in the early 1890’s for the purpose of showing the farm lands of William Staples, Joel Long, Samuel Long, Charlotte Griffith, and John Griffith. Fortunately for our present use, the plat also includes the boundaries of the NC grant #74 to Stockley Donelson in 1790, or the Charles McClung 5000 acre survey of 1796. Snyder E. Roberts marked off the McClung survey portion with heavy black lines and added some other notes. I [Pat Roberts McDonald] have added color to the streams, but I am not skilled enough to show all the details in the original book on this page.

This area is in present Roane (left) and Anderson (right) counties, with maybe just a smidge of Morgan County at the top. The Southern RR tracts from Knoxville to Harriman are shown across the top portion of the map.