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The 2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, also known as the 2018 Bean Station ICE Raid and the 2018 Grainger County ICE raid, was a workplace raid that occurred at Southeastern Provisions, a cattle slaughterhouse and meat-packing facility in rural Grainger County, Tennessee, United States, 9 miles (14 km) west of the town of Bean Station.
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Grainger County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,527. [3] Its county seat is Rutledge. [4] Grainger County is a part of the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area [5] and formerly Morristown Metropolitan Statistical Area until 2023. [6]
About 1,000 students currently attend Grainger High School. [7] In July 2015, Washburn and Grainger County received international attention and social media backlash after a (now closed) [8] hardware store owner in the community placed a ‘No gays allowed’ sign on the door of his business after the ruling of Obergefell v.
Rutledge Middle School in Rutledge is the location of the Grainger County Tomato Festival, which celebrates the tomato, Grainger County's most popular cash crop, annually since 1992. Around thirty-thousand festival-goers across the state of Tennessee and the United States gather to witness events about the county's heritage and its significant ...
The 1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision was a head-on collision involving a double-decker Greyhound bus and a tractor-trailer on U.S. Route 11W in Grainger County, Tennessee, that occurred near the town of Bean Station on the morning of May 13, 1972. [2] [3]
Including Grainger County, the 2020 census showed that the MSA had a population of 142,709. [2] The MSA is also a component of the Knoxville-Morristown-Sevierville Combined Statistical Area. The metropolitan area formerly included Grainger County until it was removed in 2023. [3]