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In 1957, Campbell Wallace of Campbell Wallace Consulting Engineers of Knoxville, TN., met with the area Ruritan Club, discussing, the organization of a Utility District that would serve water to the Russellville and Whitesburg communities. It was decided to move forward, thus a petition was filed with the Hamblen County Court requesting the incorporation of a Utility District. The matter came to be heard before the Honorable H.S. Spoon, County Judge of Hamblen County, on the 5th day of December 1957. It was ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court that Russellville-Whitesburg Utility District be created.