Appalachian History

A day’s trip in former years may now be made in 2 hours

The Deposit ferry was kept in use until about 1890, when the county established a free ferry at Guntersville.

A new industry has sprung up in the Joe Wheeler Lake area where anglers spend their time in the fisherman’s paradise created by the TVA.

Daintry Allison was 25 years old in 1921, when these photos of McDowell County schools were taken. Her school would’ve looked quite similar.

“Five miles out from Old Fort, up near Catawba Falls,” said Daintry Allison. “That was my 1st school. No teacher ever stayed there 5 months.”

The Walls of Jericho gets its name, according to Jackson County AL legend, from a traveling minister who found the canyon in the late 1800s.