Appalachian History

I was always told that the large hollow tree in the the ‘Sheep Hole’ was where Uncle George hid after his escape from the Home Guard.

That is the peculiarity of gold mining; it is just like gambling

Benjamin Parks is said by some to be the person who discovered gold in Georgia in 1828, west of the Chestatee River in Lumpkin County.

A secret tribe of Cherokees live either inside Pilot Mountain or in some hidden valley only reached by passing a concealed entrance.

Often the sanctuary was unpresentable on meeting days…. Men used to bring their saddles into the church and pile them down in the rear.

Norris damsite on Tennessee’s Clinch River, where 2,000 men are at work on preliminary construction. November, 1933.