Janeway Cabin

Gertrude Grubb was born in Blaine in July 1909, and John Janeway courted her when she was sixteen. Her widowed mother made them wait until she turned eighteen, and they were married in the middle of a dirt road. After his death in 1937 she married Alfred Vineyard in 1940, divorced him three years later and took back the Janeway name. She died in January 2003 at ninety-three in the log cabin where she had lived most of her life, and was buried near John's military stone at the New Corinth Church cemetery.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Beck Cultural Exchange Center — 17 mi
  Knoxville's Black history museum and archive, opened in 1975 in the 1912 Dandridge Avenue house the community bought for $22,500.
• Blount Mansion — 18 mi
  The 1792 frame house of William Blount, governor of the Southwest Territory, Knoxville's only National Historic Landmark, where the people he enslaved are named.
• Museum of Appalachia — 21 mi
  John Rice Irwin's 65-acre collection of moved log cabins and mountain objects north of Knoxville, opened in 1969, with a cabin believed to be Mark Twain's father's.
• Norris Dam and Norris Dam State Park — 22 mi
  TVA's first dam, finished in 1936 on the Clinch River, and the state park beside it with the 1798 Rice Grist Mill, built for a valley whose families were moved out.

More markers nearby

• Blaine's Crossroads — steps away
• Emory Road — 0.3 mi
• Albert Miller Lea — 1.6 mi
• Nicholas Gibbs Homestead — 8.3 mi