Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Benton MacKaye proposes the Appalachian Trail

Benton MacKaye (1879-1975) was the first person to propose the idea of the Appalachian Trail, which he did in October of 1921.

Russell Cave (now a national monument), is the oldest rock shelter used regularly for a home in the eastern United States.

Miss Lucy, a Clifton Mill millworker’s wife, describes domestic life in Clifton Mill Village to a SC Writers’ Project writer in 1938.

I looked back, saw both cows, thought she was going to come after me. So I climbed up a rail fence. I don’t know how in the world I got there!

Judaculla Rock, the largest petroglyph in NC, and one of the largest in the Southeast, is named for a Cherokee legend about its formation.