The Johnny Waters Photograph Collection features places in and around the Sevierville area, including local political figures whom Waters knew during his tenure as Chairman of the TVA Board of Directors. Waters (1929-1918) served as Director for the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1984 through 1993. President George H. W. Bush appointed him as Chairman of the Board of Directors in 1991.

These photographs are on loan to the Maples History Center.

  • Card game on Smoky Mountain Queen
  • Smoky Mountain Queen
  • Smoky Mountain Queen
  • Circa 1920’s flood in Sevierville
  • Circa 1920’s flood in Sevierville
  • Circa 1920’s flood in Sevierville
  • Circa 1920’s flood in Sevierville
  • Circa 1920’s flood in Sevierville
  • Circa 1920’s flood in Sevierville
  • Bruce Street, downtown Sevierville, flooded in 1963 or 1964.
  • Sevierville Court Street flood 1963 or 64
  • Sevierville Court House Bruce Steet side flood 1963 or 64
  • Flood Forks of the Rivers Sevierville 1963 or 64
  • Sevierville Forks of the River
  • Bridge in Sevierville
  • 1946 SCHS Glee Club
  • Murphy College Swevierville
  • Sevierville Grain & Feed Company
  • Central Hotell
  • Lines Spring Resort
  • Line Springs Hack
  • Johnny Waters (right) with President Richard Nixon (center) and Tennessee Senator Howard Baker (left).
  • Johnny Waters (right) with Lamar Alexander (center) and President Gerald Ford (left).
  • Richard Nixon, Patsy and John Waters
  • Patsy and John Waters
  • John Waters
  • Alex Haley, John Waters
  • John Waters and Ronald Reagan
  • John Waters and Richard Nixon
  • John Waters and Howard Baker
  • Jimmy Quillian, John Waters, Howard Baker
  • Downtown Sevierville
  • Downtown Sevierville
  • J B Waters new car
  • Mr and Mrs JB Waters
  • Myrtle Paine 9 months b 25 Dec 1891
  • unknown, Judge Ambrose Miller Paine, Rev. Smith Ferguson Paine
  • JB Waters
  • JB Waters fair grounds in Sevierville
  • David Waters 1935 on wagon
  • David Waters 1927
  • David Waters 1925

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