The Dandridge Community Trust, Corp. was founded in 2005, as an IRS Section 501(c)(3) Non-profit organization, to apply for certification of the Town of Dandridge, and it’s National Register Historic District, as a Main Street Community.  This program is governed and promoted by the National Preservation Trust in Washington D.C. and Tennessee Main Street, a department of the Tennessee Economic & Community Development division under Commissioner Matthew Kisber in Nashville.

The purpose of a Main Street program is to assist in the revitalization of a downtown area.  This is accomplished through the encouragement and development of new retail business in the central business district as well as to influence the preservation and restoration of  historic properties as a resource in the promotion of tourism.

The Dandridge Community Trust, Corp. supervises and implements the Main Street program in Dandridge though a 15 person Board of Directors.  The officers of this board include:

            Barbara Avery-Garrow, President
            James Everett, Vice-President
            LeAnn Mottern, Treasurer
            Clara Hankins, Secretary
            Carlos Conerly, Executive Director