following year. A commission consisting of state planning and TVA personnel would host town hall meetings during the spring of 1941 in Bean Station to review and developed plans for sites for Bean Station to relocate to as a planned village, similar to the planning process for the 'model town' of Norris for TVA's earlier Norris Project in the 1930s. After controversy arose following failed negotiations from unwilling property owners for the relocation sites, and reluctance from most Bean Stationers to relocate in a community effort, the community relocation project would be abandoned, with most citizens relocating on their own will. Of the estimated 200 families who lived at the original site of Bean Station, nearly 150 or 87.5% were mandated to move via eminent domain. Many houses, 20 businesses, and Clinchdale, the estate of Senator John K. Shields, were demolished or moved, and at least one historical structure had to be relocated. In the project report established by the TVA following the Cherokee Project's completion, the agency would cite the opposition from residents in the Bean Station region as the biggest hurdle during the entire project, stating, "This stability of tenure and reluctance to move complicated the problem of relocation and removal. This area included the town of Bean Station, and the Noeton-Crosby area in Grainger County." Community resistance and resilience, incorporation, and present day Following the inundation of the original site of Bean Station in 1942 and the failed plans by the TVA and state officials relocating to new site, Bean Station would unofficially shift to the relocated intersection of US 25E and US 11W near the Grainger-Hawkins border. Through the mid-20th century, Bean Station continued to see positive growth in population and economic progress as the community's principal transportation routes, U.S. Routes 11W and 25E were used prominently for the nationwide trucking industry, making the community a site of truck stops and motels. By the 1950s, Bean Station would be at the highlight of controversy regarding the then proposed Interstate 81 corridor of the Interstate Highway System planning to follow the US 11W route through Bean Station from Bristol to Knoxville, with a exit in the community providing access to Morristown and the Cumberland Gap via US 25E. Farmers in the community and surrounding area would oppose the project. Facing the opposition and swooning by neighboring Greene and Hamblen county officials, engineers would have I-81 redirected south