Post Civil War

Strawberry Plains was not the same after the war. Many of the buildings and all of the churches had been destroyed, including the college. Livestock was gone and there were no seeds to plant crops. If things were not bad enough, in 1867 the highest tide ever known in the history of the Holston River washed away the largest spans of the railroad bridge. The New Market wreck in 1904 proved the need for a double track. The double track was laid in 1907.

Jefferson County established the area as Straw Plains on December 6, 1832, but on October 14, 1903 the name was changed to Strawberry Plains. Some porters shortened the name to Straw Plains and eventually the name was changed to Straw Plains. In 1914 Bertha Meek requested of the Vice President of Southern Railroad to use the original name. Mr. Copeman, the vice president, had the depot renamed Strawberry Plains.