“The Oliver Springs Community originated from a 5,000-acre grant issued to Stockley Donelson on June 17, 1790, Grant No. 74 from the State of NC for land on Poplar Creek. Donelson received other grants that today constitute much of the land around the Oliver Springs region. Some of these include: 1,500 acres that are now downtown Oak Ridge, 1,000 acres on East Fork in Roane County about 1.5 miles west of the Anderson County line, 3,000 acres in the Old Wheat Area (including the Mill Site), and a 50,000-acre grant in 1795 for the land between the Tennessee and Clinch River’s conflux.”
(From The Story of Oliver Springs, TN and Its People, Vol. IV, by Snyder E. Roberts, courtesy of C. S. Harvey, Conservator of the Roberts–Harvey Archives)
More at the Oliver Springs Historical Society Website.