Jean Underwood Fox and Harry Fox presently own the Albert Miller Lea farm at Richland, and this is the 209th anniversary of Mr. Lea’s birth. What a birthday gift, a Tennessee Historic Marker, presented by Mr. and Mrs. Fox. They have begun working with Grainger County Historian Ken Coffey to have Richland: Albert Miller Lea Farm placed on the National Register of Historic Places. This is the tenth historic marker to be placed in Grainger County. Mr. Marvin House, who restored the Richland Mill, was also helpful in this process.

Lea graduated fifth in his class at West Point and a classmate of General Robert E. Lee who was at the head of the class. Lea served in the Confederacy during the Civil War. After the war he was a Federal land surveyor.

Source: Grainger County Today.