Appalachian History

The Tallulah Falls Railway

Perhaps the most distinguishing single characteristic of the Tallulah Falls Railroad was its fascinating variety of trademark trestles.

On the hottest day you could imagine a 465 pound hog got into the middle of the ridge field and flat out melted! That’s a fact.

Knoxville, TN up till the ‘Red Summer’ of 1919 had always prided itself as a model southern city when it came to race relations.

The Parkers of Lawrence and Pike County Kentucky grew with a community obligated to raise up their children in the “good old fashioned way.”

The path of Mountain Dew to its current worldwide popularity breaks into a number of offshoots that parallel, intertwine, and circle back.