Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

The SC house the old Confederate veterans called home

Each June 2, the old soldiers of the Confederacy met at Frances Hagood Mauldin’s home for a parade and picnic.

Rookie sportswriter Bill McGeehan of the New York Herald-Tribune dubbed him that because, to him, Jones looked downcast on the field.

RE: the 1902 grand entrance of Colonel Campbell Slemp & Major C. Bascom Slemp, father and son, into active politics in Virginia.

Perhaps the most distinguishing single characteristic of the Tallulah Falls Railroad was its fascinating variety of trademark trestles.

On the hottest day you could imagine a 465 pound hog got into the middle of the ridge field and flat out melted! That’s a fact.

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