Built in the early 1900’s, Tellico Plains’s former City Hall served many roles over time. A jail was added in 1910 in the back area and was used mostly as a holding spot for night owls and town misdemeanors. Over its history, the building housed a fire hall, jail station, library, police station, and at times city hall. In 1977, prisoners began being transported to the Monroe County Justice Center. The Tellico Plains Public Library moved to the upper level of city hall in 1972, and after an anonymous donation helped fund a new library and the city received a matching grant, the current library opened in 1993. City Hall remained in the building until 2016, when city business moved to Veterans Memorial Drive. The original building housed every city mayor known to date, from W.H. Heffelfinger, who served from August 1911 to July 1912, to Patrick Hawkins, who served from 2012 to 2020. Local street names also reflect Tellico’s connections to its past: Scott Street for C.A. Scott, who brought the lumber business to Tellico; Babcock Street for the Babcock Lumber family; and Southard Street for the Southard brothers, organizers of the Tellico Extract Company. Oral tradition and Ray Jenkins’s book The Terror of Tellico Plains also preserve a rumor that a vintage adult entertainment business once operated in the apartment complex across from Southard Street.