HARRIMAN  , a

city of Roane county, Tennessee, U.S.A., on the Emory river, about 35 M . W. by S. of Knoxville . Pop . (1900) 3442 (5'6 being negroes) ; (1910) 3061 . Harriman is served by the Harriman & North Eastern, the Tennessee Central, and the Southern railways . It is the seat of the East Tennessee Normal and Industrial Institute, for negroes, and of the American University of Harriman (Christian Church, coeducational; 1893), which comprises primary, preparatory, collegiate, Bible school, civic research, commercial, music and art departments, and in 1907—1908 had 12 instructors and 317 students . Near the city are large deposits of iron and an abundance of coal and timber . Among manufactures are cotton products, farming tools, leather, tannic acid, furniture and flour . Harriman was founded in '890 by a land company . A clause in this company's by-laws requires that every conveyance of real estate by the company " shall contain a provision forbidding the use of the property or any building thereon, for the purpose of making, storing or selling intoxicating beverages as such." Harriman was chartered as a city in '891, and its charter was revised in 1899 .