Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Wedding in an amusement park

Rock Springs Park, close to the Ohio River, included a carousel, dance pavilion, bath house, lake and large swimming pool.

By the end of his career, John Paul Riddle had received the British Empire award & been inducted into the Kentucky Aviation Hall of Fame.

In 1948 Buckminster Fuller aimed to produce a geodesic dome with a forty-eight foot diameter at Black Mountain College.

Bartholomew Himmler established Cumberland MD’s first beer brewery ca. 1852. By the time the WPA produced its guide, ‘Cumberland beer’ was 88.

Walter Gassaway became Greenville’s most successful stock speculator in the 1920s. His mansion’s still the largest house in the Upstate.