Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Farmers/farming

The vanished community of Lost Cove

Neither North Carolina nor Tennessee claimed jurisdiction over Lost Cove. The boundary line wasn’t clear when it was founded. Hence the name.

Before modern mechanization, the size of farms across southern Appalachia was usually measured in horses. A two-horse farm was average size.

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!

Benjamin Franklin Gravely had a dream: to build a tractor which would revolutionize gardening and lawn maintenance for the homeowner.

When they threshed that wheat? Somebody came in with a threshing machine. He made a business of traveling around to all the farms.

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