Appalachian History

I thought she was going to come after me so I climbed up a rail fence

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!

Judaculla Rock, the largest petroglyph in NC, and one of the largest in the Southeast, is named for a Cherokee legend about its formation.

The Cherokee war council meets in Willstown. Bloody Fellow is conscripted to write a deceptive letter to TN Gov. William Blount.

In the early 1790s the Cherokee nation was still strong enough to pose a serious threat to the newly emerging state of Tennessee.

The Bloch brothers’ barn-painting advertising helped to make their “West Virginia coleslaw” one of America’s most recognized 20th century brands.