exerpt from Touring the East Tennessee Backroads by Carolyn Sakowski
...Retrace your route to U.S.25W.  It is 1.8 miles to the bridge across the French Broad.  On the right just before the bridge are the remains of Swannbrne.  At the road just before the bridge, you can turn in for a better view of the estate.  Actually, what remains is the Swannbrne guesthouse, which should give you some idea of how elaborate the main home was before it burned in 1959.

This estate was the home of the Alfred Swann family.  In 1866, he borrowed twenty-five dollars and began farming and trading.  Alfred eventually owned three farms totaling thirty-two hundred acres on both sides of the French Broad.

Swannburne, the third home of the Swann family, was constructed in the 1920s.  It was considered one of the showplaces of East Tennessee before it burned.  Frances Burnett Swann was the mistress of the house for years.  Her letter-writing efforts were influential in the building of the dike that saved the town of Dandridge when the TVA dammed the river to make Douglas Lake."

exerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandridge,_Tennessee
"...The French Broad Baptist Church is where the Swann family is buried.  This church is across the lake from Swann’s Marina."