May 26, 1900

The small town of Ben Lomond was incorporated in Sevier County. Located along U.S. Highway 59, a few miles north of the Little River near where the river widens into Millwood Lake, the area now known as Ben Lomond went unclaimed until the middle of the nineteenth century, when white settlers from Scotland arrived, naming the hill location after a famous Scottish mountain. In the years following the Civil War, the town became an agricultural center primarily for cotton farmers and later grew as a result of the timber and fur-trapping activities.