Bear Spring is an unincorporated community in Stewart County, Tennessee, in the United States.

At its peak work rate in 1850, the furnace could produce over 2000 tons of metal.

[2][3] A post office called Bear Spring was established in 1893, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1948.

[4] According to local history, the community was so named when a pioneer settler shot a bear in a nearby spring.

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