Boones Creek, Tennessee

Boones Creek is a neighborhood of Johnson City, in northern Washington County, Tennessee.

[2] In the center of Boones Creek is a historic marker that tells the origins of the community's name.

William Bean, the first white settler in Tennessee, built a cabin and planted corn on Boone's Creek in 1768 to stake a claim to the land, and moved his family there in 1769.

The "Bean Fort-Spring," a two-story log fort that had water from a spring piped into it, was built there around 1775 and is still standing.

A post office called Boons Creek was established in 1841, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1900.