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More than Crockett
Sep, 11, 2007 Last Updated:04:28 pm
Every southern town has a beloved hero. In Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, it’s David (“Davy”) Crockett. When you make the hour-long scenic trek on Route 43 north, you’ll see tributes and memorials to Crockett everywhere you go.
Showing Southern hospitality
Jun, 12, 2007 Last Updated:12:57 pm
When Hartselle calls itself “The City of Southern Hospitality,” it’s not an overstatement. The town has earned high praise from southern travel writers, including Norman Crampton, who calls Hartselle one of The 100 Best Small Towns in America; Gerald Sweltzer, who includes Hartselle in The Best Small Southern Towns, and Rand McNally, which features Hartselle in its 2006 volume of The Best of the...
Courtland is town steeped in history
Jun, 12, 2007 Last Updated:10:59 am
To visit Courtland is to journey two centuries back in time. As you walk along the streets of this small Lawrence County town, soaking up the grandeur of the plantation-style mansions and the appeal of smaller dwellings, you begin to get a sense of what it was like when Courtland was a thriving 19th century southern town.
Discover the treasures of Leighton
Jun, 11, 2007 Last Updated:11:21 am A small town wants to grow Leighton is a small town looking to expand its limits, which have changed little since its founding at the turn of the 18th century. Until the present effort to annex adjacent property, Leighton’s boundaries encompassed a single square mile.
U.S. 72 to Rogersville
Jun, 08, 2007 Last Updated:01:14 pm
Surely they could not have selected a more correct spot had they been able to rise above its thickly wooded acres and view from above the beautiful Elk River joining the mighty Tennessee and meandering towards its northern union with the Ohio. — From a handwritten history of Rogersville in the Genealogy Room of the Rogersville Library
The road to Waterloo
Jun, 08, 2007 Last Updated:10:24 am
Waterloo, Alabama is off the beaten path, but this small rural community has an intriguing history, and the road there offers gorgeous vistas of forests and water.
Destination Russellville
Jun, 07, 2007 Last Updated:02:30 pm
Walt Whitman, one of America’s best loved poets, often took “to the open road,” chronicling the wonders he found along the way. To Whitman, the destination was less important than the journey itself. The curious traveler with an open mind finds color and value in the gems he discovers along the way.
