Visiting Janet Roman & Jaime in Hickory, NC. No new pics just yet…’puter problems.
After Nashville, we went south to the Fall Creek Falls State Park. A nice quiet camp. A good long walk then lounged around a river. Friday saw a beautiful sunny morning before our long drive to Pigeon Forge- Dollywood! Up & down the foothills of the Great Smoky Moutains. At Pigeon Falls they were having the Annual Muscle Car Rally…just made for terrific traffic jams.
We had a lovely hike in the Smokys..Grotto Falls and another Hard Rock Cafe for pins.
Can anyone explain why Gatlinburg is … ?
See ya soon.
J&A
Why Gatlinburg is?…. Good question, it appears the only reason is that there are oak trees and water it was first named White Oak Flats for the abundant native white oak trees covering the landscape. It is believed a middle-aged widow, Martha Jane Huskey Ogle, was the first official settler here. She came with her family to start a new life in what her late-husband described as a “Land of Paradise” in East Tennessee. Soon after, such now familiar family names as McCarter, Reagan, Whaley, and Trentham took up residence along local streams and hollows.
Nothing really changed and there was no reason to go there until until the Smoky Mountain
national park was established.
Now that’s a piece of trivia that will really be on the top of your list of discussion topics.
Have fun and be safe on your return home.
Walt
By: Walt on April 21, 2008
at 7:06 am