Since first viewed by white explorers, William Bean and Daniel Boone, in 1775, Bean Station, Tennessee was destined to become a historical crossroads figuratively and literally.

Named for the pioneering Bean family, who settled here in the late 1700’s, Bean Station marked the crossroads of the Great Cherokee War Path and the intersecting Kentucky Road used by settlers traveling to Ken-tuck. Bean Station was also destined to become a crossroads for hospitality as well as the young nation’s largest tavern and inn between Washington D.C. and New Orleans would later be constructed here.

After retiring from military service, Revolutionary War officers, Robert Bean and William Bean II, were granted 3,000 acres of land along German Creek by a grateful nation. This first settlement, present-day Bean Station, was located near the intersection of the Ken-tuck road and the Great Cherokee War Path. A fort intended to protect both the settlers and this strategic location was constructed nearby.

The small community prospered as both westward-bound frontiersmen and north-south travelers rested at Bean Station’s three tavern-inns. Most notable among the inns was the two-story tavern built by brothers Thomas and Jenkins Whiteside around 1811.

The Whiteside Inn & Tavern added a forty-room red brick addition in 1825, becoming the largest inn known to exist between the nation’s capital and New Orleans.

After the Civil War, a second prominent inn, a Victorian-style hotel, was constructed by Samuel Tate in 1865. America’s elite families, arriving by private luxury rail cars, stayed at the upscale resort enjoying its many amenities, rolling landscape and mist-shrouded Smoky Mountains.

The Great Depression brought an end to Bean Station’s prosperity which would be felt for decades to come.

Today, however, the legacy of Bean Station lives on through the spirit of its people. Bean Station has once again re-emerged as a center of southern hospitality with the development of German Creek Resort and Marina.

These luxury-style condominiums within this gated community, feature amenities that would inspire even today’s elite, but now they are available to you and your family at a price you can afford.

Enjoy community amenities like a clubhouse, swimming pool, marina, lakeside restaurant, conference center, retail shopping center and much more. Individual units feature a gourmet kitchen, designer fireplace, private balcony, garden tub and other upgrades as standard features that would delight even the most discriminating of guests.

Create your very own legacy and a lifetime of family memories starting today at German Creek Resort and Marina in historic Bean Station, Tennessee.

For more information, phone 1-800-634-6199 or visit www.germancreekresort.com.