{"id":115,"date":"2018-09-29T11:21:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T11:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2022-05-19T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T12:23:06","slug":"elsie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Elsie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Kingsport, Tennessee, was a planned community.\u00a0 Built with money from the Appalachian coalfields combined with Yankee expertise, Kingsport was laid out based on towns and cities in New England, with everything planned by the city fathers, which is why it today goes by the name &#8220;The Model City.&#8221;\u00a0 Kingsport was chartered in 1917, but within two years those city fathers discovered that while they could plan and manage their new metropolis, they couldn&#8217;t plan for the evil that existed in the hearts of men.\u00a0 In 1919 an assault and murder of a young girl occurred there, the first and even today one of the worst the city has seen. 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