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How Gatlinburg Got Its Name
How Gatlinburg Got Its Name

Every place has a name, and every name has its story...including the tourist destination of the Smokey Mountains, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

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The Trial of Wilson Howard
The Trial of Wilson Howard

In the 1880's there was a feud between the Turner and Howard families in Harlan County, Kentucky, almost as notorious as the one going on between the…

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That Time Roy Acuff Ran For Governor
That Time Roy Acuff Ran For Governor

Back in the 1940s Roy Acuff was at the top of his game. He was a country music star with such hits as "The Great Speckled Bird" and "The Wabash Canno…

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Belle Boyd, The Siren of the Shenandoah
Belle Boyd, The Siren of the Shenandoah

Isabella Marie Boyd, better known to history as Belle Boyd, was a notorious rebel spy during the Civil War who used her wiles to obtain Union secrets…

3 years, 8 months ago

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General John D. Imboden
General John D. Imboden

Lawyer, politician, Confederate general, land developer, promoter of coal and the founder of the town of Damascus, Virginia. All these jobs were held…

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The Legend of Swift's Silver Mine
The Legend of Swift's Silver Mine

It's been said that there is a mine somewhere in Appalachia, in which a vein of the highest quality silver can be found. And it's located...well, th…

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The Murder of the Richards Sisters
The Murder of the Richards Sisters

Early in 1940 two middle-aged sisters and a teen-aged boy who did odd jobs for them were brutally murdered in their home in Oliver Springs, Tennessee…

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The Showgirl and the Tobacco Heir
The Showgirl and the Tobacco Heir

On November 23, 1931, 20-year-old Zachary Smith Reynolds of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was divorced from his first wife. Six days later he marri…

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Good Trouble
Good Trouble

In 1965 a Kentucky widow managed to drive the coal company from her land with what was called a "sit-in," an early use of peaceful civil disobedience…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Hog Greer of Big Bald Mountain
Hog Greer of Big Bald Mountain

A jilted young man came over the mountains from North Carolina to Tennessee, intent on spending the rest of his life alone on a mountaintop. This he…

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