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Continue reading →: East Knoxville: Parkridge, Morningside, & BurlingtonThe world famous neon green soda, Mountain Dew, was first formulated in an old white building at 1921 Magnolia Avenue in 1945 when brothers Ally and Barney Hartman found their perfect mixer for Tennessee whiskey.
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Continue reading →: Abingdon: Great Road, Crooked Road, & The Virginia Creeper TrailABINGDON is a small Appalachian mountain town in Virginia with around eight thousand residents. It is just minutes from the city of Bristol which famously straddles both sides of the Virginia/Tennessee state line, and it is part of the Tri-Cities Region anchored by Bristol, Kingsport, and Johnson City. This land…
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Continue reading →: Chattanooga’s South Broad, St. Elmo Historic District, & Lookout MountainSt. Elmo is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of Chattanooga’s oldest suburbs. It developed after a Yellow Fever outbreak in 1878 that caused more than 12,000 people to flee the city, looking for personal space and fresh air closer to Lookout Mountain.
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Continue reading →: Chattanooga’s Northshore, Bluff View, & Riverfront DistrictsRead House Hotel’s Room 311 is famous for being where where Al Capone was held overnight during transport to trial in Chicago, and it is the only room in the hotel with bars on the window. Room 311 is also allegedly haunted, ever since 1927 when Annaliese Netherly’s husband found…
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Continue reading →: Blue Ridge Parkway (1/6): The Great Smoky Mountains National Park & Great Smoky Mountains RegionTHE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY The Blue Ridge Parkway (BRP) is a US National Parkway and the longest linear park in the country. It spans 469 miles from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in both Tennessee and North Carolina. With an average speed of…
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Continue reading →: Tipp City, Ohio: To My Hometown With LoveTIPP CITY is a small town in southwestern Ohio, commonly known as a bedroom community of Dayton. This land originally belonged to the Shawnee Tribe. It has around ten thousand people in less than eight square miles and it is part of the Dayton metropolitan area, but I think it deserves…
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Continue reading →: Dingle Peninsula, Slea Head Drive, & Conor Pass Marine National ParkStep into an Irish pub any chance you get. Even if you are not drinking, they are almost always sure to have a big boiling pot of stew and fresh fish in the oven, live music or some kind of game going on, and everyone hollers at you when you…
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Continue reading →: East Tennessee Crossing Byway: From Harrogate to Hot SpringsWhat is the link between Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Abraham Lincoln, Native American settlements, Filipino food, an Irish Cemetery, Vinegar Pie, and a former Internment Camp for German POWs in a popular mineral springs town? Well it is called the US Route 25, better known as the East Tennessee…
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Continue reading →: Exploring Cleveland: Cherokee History, the Craigmiles Legacy, & Tall BetsyI spent the majority of this year half-living in Cleveland and I have spent more time there than most other places I have written about. Watch out, it could happen to you, too.
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Continue reading →: Discover the Walton Road Historic Byway: A Scenic Tennessee Drive from Kingston to CarthageWalton Road is just one of thirteen famous byways in Tennessee, including Natchez Trace Parkway, Newfound Gap Road, Great River Road, Cherohala Skyway, East Tennessee Crossing, Woodlands Trace, Norris Freeway, Sequatchie Valley Scenic Byway, Great Smoky Mountains Byway, Tennessee River Trail Scenic Byway, and Ocoee Scenic Byway. THE WALTON ROAD…
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Continue reading →: A Distemperate Bunch: 13 Reasons Why Blue Ridge is a Wild, Wild PlaceLegend has it that a traveling preacher passed through what is now Blue Ridge, Georgia in the late 1790s and described the local settlers as a “distemperate bunch” due to moonshining, brawling, and other rowdiness. The emergence of communities like Hell’s Holler, Devil’s Den, Fighting Creek, and Snake Nation only…
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Continue reading →: Johnson City: An Appalachian Historical, Musical, & Cultural CenterJOHNSON CITY Johnson City is a college town, centered largely around East Tennessee State University. It is known as the “Med Tech Corridor” backed by ETSU’s Quillen College of Medicine and the Gatton College of Pharmacy, the Johnson City Medical Center, Niswonger Children’s Hospital, and Franklin Woods Community Hospital. Johnson…
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