On March 14, 1890, the city of Middlesboro, Kentucky, was officially incorporated—though it was originally spelled “Middlesborough.” Sitting just west of the Cumberland Gap, this city has a history as
There was once a coal company in Appalachia that was owned not by wealthy investors but by its employees, in a cooperative enterprise. And the houses in the company’s coal
https://youtu.be/sfEU5_4Syiw Join us as we tell the story of one of the most notorious landmarks in West Virginia: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Known as the most haunted place in America,
Theft. Infanticide. Insanity. Murder. Ghosts. The stories that surround a notorious tunnel in Tennessee contain all those elements and more. Today we tell some of those stories and tell you
In 1890 the circus came to Alderson, West Virginia. When the circus moved on, it left a new resident of the town, which became loved by all, well, except for
After the Civil War fine hotels were built all along the mountain range that separated North Carolina and Tennessee, each one grander than the last, a sort of Guilded Age
The tallest mountain east of the Mississippi River is Mount Mitchell in North Carolina, standing at 6684 ft above sea level. Clingman’s Dome in Tennessee is the third tallest mountain
Earlier this summer we took our YouTube viewers to the area around Fontana Lake to show them a road that was promised but never fully built. On today’s podcast episode,
In the 1870s a veteran of the Civil War returned to East Tennessee to make his fortune. General John Wilder established foundries in Rockwood and Johnson City, he ran for