The Deery Inn was built in the early 1800s on what is now Main Street in downtown Blountville, by an Irishman by the name of William Deery, and he lived in it until his death in 1845. Later, the house became an inn that played host to presidents Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson and James Polk. Many people have had paranormal encounters in the building to this date.
In October of 2004, members of the Sullivan East High School Forensic Team show a video in the old Inn and in a mirror in one of the upstairs room they were able to make out the images of a disembodied man and woman. Such paranormal activity isn't too hard to believe when one considers the house once housed dying soldiers during the Civil War and a fatal knife fight was supposed to have taken place in one of the rooms. 1
