Shadrach Callaway Born: June 16, 1814 Died: Feb. 28,1868
Shadrach (Shade) Callaway, a Colonel in the Tennessee Militia, and his wife Mary Hendrix Callaway settled in the Concord area. The name Callaway’s Landing can be traced to the early riverboats on the Tennessee River used part of the farm for a landing. Shadrach’s father, James Callaway, had sold his farm at Ball Camp, in Knox County, and moved himself and his family to Lonejack, Missouri, near present day Kansas City. This move came in the late 1840‘s or early 1850‘s. Shade did not find Missouri to his liking, however, so he returned to Tennessee, and purchased approximately 300 acres of Tennessee River bottom land including two large islands in west Knox County. Due to a little insider information, Shade just happened to buy property situated along the planned route for the East Tennessee and Georgia main rail line between Knoxville and Atlanta.
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Shade’s cousin, Thomas Callaway, was president of The East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia Railroad, and (according to the family historian) as a favor to his cousin the rail road town of Concord was “laid off” on the James M. Rodgers farm next to Callaway’s Landing in 1854 (History of Tennessee, The Goodspeed Publishing Company, Nashville, TN, 1887, p 883). Shade is credited with building the first dwelling in Concord - a boarding house. That structure was lost to the first fire that destroyed Concord.
The information above was provided with the permission of Anne Ralston and her complete history of Callaway's Landing can be viewed at her excellent website:
http://www.callawayslanding.com/index.html
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