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How To Visit To Gatlinburg Tennessee
The Tennessee archaeology that was interesting to me is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is located in Gatlinburg Tennessee. The reason I chose Gatlinburg Tennessee, is because it has a lot of interesting site and adventures for adults and children. It’s has many things in Gatlinburg Tennessee you can see, but the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most attraction for this area. People come from all around the world just to visit Gatlinburg Tennessee. They make money from each various places in Gatlinburg Tennessee all through the year, especially from the many cabins they have there. They make coming to Gatlinburg an interesting and educational place to visit as well as a fun place for the whole entire family.
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When Gatlinburg was founded the original name for this beautiful city was White oaks. The settlers was calling it White Oaks at the beginning, because the city wasn’t discovered at the time. The people who founded this area that settled there felt it should be called White Oaks, considering the big wooded trees, forests and wildlife that was in the area. Before anybody started to come to the area, the Native American tribes where only living in that remote area. After so long the people in the White Oaks area, began to grow as the population and the community. They also build their first church. Which was called White Oaks Baptist Church. Then in 1867 a school was built. In 1855 a man by the name Radford Gatlin, which was a native from North Carolina opened their first a post office in the mercantile. He was then named the postmaster. For appreciation a man named Richard Reagan, renamed Radford Gatlin office because of the work he did in the community as a postman. It was then called Gatlinburg. When people started to hear about the change of the office to Gatlinburg they begin to like it. In the late 19th Century White Oak community, decided its original name was well over due for a change. So the late 1800’s they officially renamed the area to …show more content…
In 1802, her husband William Ogle chose a site where he wanted the first home to be built in Gatlinburg. The first home would be built for his family to live. He then started to cut down logs for the cabin. He also returned back to South Carolina where his family was, to bring them back with him to live in this cabin he was building. When talking to his family, he told them he had found a place his name "The Land of Paradise" which was located in the mountains of East Tennessee. When preparing to pack and bring his family to Gatlinburg he then fell ill. The said it was probably with malaria. He then passed away in 1803 before he could bring his family to East Tennessee. So to honor his wish she pack and bought everyone there to live in the cabin he had for them four years later. When they got there they finish what he started and built the cabin. After that they started their new life in Gatlinburg. In 1910 the cabin was abandon from the grandson and his family who was the last to live there. Later on the farm was sold to Pi Beta Phi and they used it for a hospital between the years of 1922 to

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