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Category: Tennessee

September 19, 2017 New Deal Settlement Communities / Tennessee

Indoor privies for country people at Cumberland Homesteads

Cumberland Homesteads community came into being as part of a nationwide New Deal agrarian movement to create subsistence farm communities.

Sevier County’s African-American architectural legacy

After the Civil War, Isaac Dockery became instrumental in establishing the brick masonry tradition within the African-American culture of Sevier County, TN.

August 17, 2017 Cherokee Nation / Tennessee / Trail of Tears

The preacher threw the dirt out of Unatsi’s grave and robbed it

No man knew Blue Ridge people, lore, habits, & tastes better than Shepherd Dugger; in his day he was the foremost historian of the region.

August 14, 2017 Evangelists / Oral histories / Tennessee

We have canned 113 cans of corn and several beans

The mill here is running good. Still it’s hard to get a job as so many are still out of work. I will close by promising to write more often.

August 8, 2017 Copper mining / Tennessee

Acid rain devastates Tennessee’s Copper Basin

By 1878, about 50 sq. mi. had been stripped of vegetation. Without trees and undergrowth, the top soil began to erode and huge gullies formed.

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