Sevier Park was purchased by the Park Board in 1945 from the estate of Colonel Granville Sevier, a retired Army officer and descendent of a brother to the first Governor of Tennessee. Sunnyside Mansion in the park was the home before the Civil War of Mrs. Jesse Benton, whose husband was the brother of Thomas H. Benton. The Park was dedicated by Mayor Thomas Cummings on June 7, 1948.
