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Who Was Here When I Got Here

Reminiscences of the Cloverdale, GA community by Brody Hawkins, who was born there in 1927 (d. 1998) and lived there all his life.

The Asheville Colored Hospital opened in 1944 through the efforts of Dr. Mary Frances Shuford and others such as Charles A. Webb.

Dr. Claudius Meade Capps organized the Knox County Medical Society, and was special surgeon of the staff of the Knoxville General Hospital.

Ann Johnson believed she deserved more from life than to work in a general store owned by her husband, Cornelius, & live in the backwoods.

Thompson’s Bromine and Arsenic Springs is a good representative of a segment of our social heritage, of which only a few survive.