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

Category: Tennessee

Did Mill man commit suicide or was he murdered?

Poe Mill employees, photographed in 1910, when mill worker J.C. Lindley allegedly murdered mill worker Ben Allen.

From the 1927 divorce case filed by James R. Seawall against Dorothy Elizabeth Seawall in Knox County Fourth Circuit Court, Knoxville, TN.

Even hardened historians grow weepy when confronted with the hard luck story of Smoky Mountain Railroad—a fit subject for Voltaire’s Candide.

The fabled phoenix, that marvelous bird endowed with the power to rise from its own ashes, finds a match in the pork pie hat.

Back in nineteen and thirteen me and my brother coon hunted lots [in the] Smokies. We had a dog named Track. He was a good one.

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