Wheat, Tennessee
human settlement in Tennessee, United States of America
Wheat was a farming community in Roane County, Tennessee. The area is now in the city of Oak Ridge.
The earliest settlers moved into the area in the late 18th century. However, it was not until 1846 that the area was established as the community of Bald Hill. The name was changed to Wheat in 1880, when a post office was opened and the community took the name of its first postmaster, Frank Wheat.
The first settler with the surname of Wheat and the recognized founding father of the town is Levi Henderson Wheat, born in Virginia between 1770 – 1780. Levi is first shown on a tax record within Roane County, Tennessee in 1805. On Nov 14, 1814, a “tract of land being in the 3rd Civil District, on the waters of Paw Paw Creek, consisting of 146 acres is conveyed to Levi Wheat from Jason Matlock for the sum of $200”. Levi Wheat worked the land as a farmer, married three times, and bore a total of 18 children. Levi served in the War of 1812 as a Private under Captain John McKamy’s Company of East Tennessee Militia, Colonel E Booth’s Regiment.
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