Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Englewood, TN

Englewood is an incorporated town in McMinn County, Tennessee, and it was incorporated in 1919.

The town began in 1857, when businessman John Dixon established the Eureka Cotton Mills, and the mill community that grew around it was known as Eureka Mills.

In 1894 the Brient family, which had acquired the mills, renamed the town "Englewood" — a name suggested by Nancy Chestnutt, who thought the area resembled the Inglewood Forest of the Robin Hood tales she had read as a child.

In 1907 the whole mill operation was moved about two miles northeast to the railroad stop of Tellico Junction, which was renamed Englewood the following year, while the original mill site became known as "Old Englewood."

In 1917 the Englewood Manufacturing Company built a hosiery mill in town, and Englewood grew into a company town with housing for 300 workers, its own company stores, a sawmill, and a school.

Englewood's mill neighborhoods earned colorful nicknames: "Yellow Top" for the cotton mill tenements, "Socktown" for the hosiery mill section, and "Onion Hill" for the part tied to the flour mill.

The town's mills were forced to close during the Great Depression, and the last of them, Allied Hosiery, shut its doors in 2008, ending a textile era that had lasted more than 150 years.

The Englewood Textile Museum, at the corner of Niota Street and Main Street, preserves and interprets the town's manufacturing history.

The 2020 census counted 1,483 residents in Englewood.

Local children attend Englewood Elementary School, and older students go to McMinn Central High School, which opened in 1966 after Englewood High School was destroyed by a fire in December 1963.