Campbell County, Tennessee and Beyond    By Dallas Bogan Dallas Bogan has written columns for the LaFollette Press called Campbell County, Tennessee and Beyond and for The Volunteer Times. He has generously donated copies of his column as well as other miscellaneous articles to the Campbell County TNGenWeb site. Many thanks to Dallas for sharing his research.  All these articles have been previously published in the aforementioned newspapers.  A| B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z   1883 Train Trip From Knoxville To Jellico Described In Old Knoxville Daily Tribune A American Indians Had Plenty Of Dogs, But Spaniards Introduced Horses To Continent  American Indians' Ways Changed World's Culture More Than Any Other Civilization, Says Writer American Women During World War II America's First Bible Belt Began In Northeast, Spread During Great Awakening Of The 1700s Anderson County , Tennessee Antebellum Slavery Anthras Got Its Name from Anthracite Coal; Block's Name Came from Thick Coal Vein Appalachian Music Mostly Based On Ballads, Instrumental Dance Tunes Of Anglo-Saxons Area Names in early Campbell County At The End Of 19th Century, Mountain Lumbering Was Done By Man, Animals Without Machines Ausmus Family Roots Spring From Germans Who Fled To Holland To Escape Persecution B Baird, Dosset Families Go Back To Early 1800s In Campbell County, Says Goodspeed's History Baird Surname Has Ancient Ties To Campbell Balmy Days Of Indian Summer's American Origins Date To Revolutionary War Times Before Iron Tools, Indians Felled Trees With Fire; Bow, Arrow Fell Into Disuse When Trading Began Biographies Of Campbell County Tennessee Biographies Of Campbell County Tennessee II The Black Dutch - Melungeons Blacksmithing, One Of The Oldest Crafts, Was Important Trade In Early History Of County Blockhouses, Often Crudely Built, Vigilance Were Settlers' Defense Against Indians Bloomeries - Early Iron Forges - Were Among First Industries In Campbell County; Earliest Was In 1824 'Blue Gem Coal' Name Coined After Its Blue Blaze Captured Attention at Woolridge Home Bogan Explores History of Welsh Coal Miners in the Knoxville Region Border Forts And The Block-House Boston Tavern Handled First Overseas Mail Sent From European Countries In 1639 Bow, Arrow Tipped With Quarried Flint Was Great Labor-Saving Invention For Native Americans Bowman And Johnson Killed, James Bunch Wounded In Powell's Valley Bradford Demarcus The Briceville Air Force Base Buffalo Trails Led The Way For Pioneers Buffalo Trails Provided First Connection Among States Bullocks, Among The First Americans In East  C Campbell County Authorized By General Assembly In 1806, County Seat Chosen The Following Year Campbell County Col. Joseph A. Cooper Organized Union 6th Tenn. Regiment in Kentucky in 1862 Campbell County's Early Post Offices Included Jacksborough, Big Creek Gap, Primroy, Girl, Agee Campbell County Had 150 War Dead During Wwii; First, George Lamb, Won Distinguished Service Cross Campbell County Muses Trace their History to Isaac Muse, Who Married Here in 1873 Campbell County Seat Named For Judge Jack, Spared By Friendly Indian; Location Led To Bitter Court Dispute Campbell County Sheriff, 1892-93: John M Burnett Canoe Construction And Usage Caryville Got Its Name From William Carey, Land Owner, County Judge, Freight Line Operator Caryville Through the Years Cherokee 'Mountaineers' Claimed Roughly 40,000 Square Miles Through Eight States Cherokee Myths Cherokee Practices Church Of God Got Its Start With Small Band Of Believers On Banks Of Barney Creek The Civil War In And Around Campbell County, Tennessee Civil War Sites in the Siege of Knoxville The Civil War Sutler Claiborne County , Tennessee Coal Dust Memories Of Block, Tennessee Coal Fields Of Kentucky And Tennessee Coal Mining 'Coal Mining Towns' Tells Story Of East Tennessee Coal, Timber Turned Sleepy Town Of Smithburg Into Bustling Jellico, Spurred Building Of First Baptist Coffee Rations, Though Small, Were Considered Godsend To Soldiers During Civil War Period Col. Joseph A. Cooper, Campbell County Native, Beat Confederate Cavalry In Pine Mountain Fight Completion of Knoxville, Ohio Railroads Opened up East Tennessee: One of Nation's Richest Areas Confederacy's Railway Deficit, High Damages May Have Contributed Heavily To Loss Of War Confederate Major Kept Superiors Notified Of Troop Status In Campbell Confederate Newspaper Described Geography Facing 'Vandal Abolition Hordes In The North' Confederate Soldier John Wesley Pitts Wrote Wife, Vin, From Encampments Near Cumberland Gap Cooking Stoves: Dutch Ovens, Deep Iron Kettles Highly Treasured County's Namesake, Col. Arthur Campbell, Moved From Virginia To Middlesboro, Died There In 1911 County's Revolutionary War Veterans Listed Cumberland Gap Played Crucial Role in Transition of Frontier; Some 8,000 WHIGS Met There in 1840 D Daniel Boone, 30 Woodsmen Blazed Famed 200-Mile Wilderness Road In Spring, 1775 Daniel Boone's 1775 Wilderness Road First Platted By White Man Into Tennessee Territory Daniel Boone Hunted For Business, Not For His Amusement Or Pleasure, 1784 History Book Says Davy Crockett Describes Bear Hunting Exploits, Boat Building Experience During Fall of 1825 Davy Crockett Describes Bear Hunting Exploits, Boat Building Experience During Fall Of 1825 (Long Version) Daniel Goins Death Practices In Appalachia : In Earlier Days, Bells Tolled For Each Year Of Life, Family, Friends Dug Grave Discovery Of Coal In Jellico Mountains Changed Small Village Of Smithburg From 1833 To 1878 Disastrous 1906 Dynamite Explosion In Jellico Killed 8, Injured 200 More, Wrecked Downtown Dodge McCulley's Account of Roach's Funeral Home Doing The Laundry In Another Day Dragging Canoe & The Chickamuga Cherokees E Each Of Tennessee's Three Grand Divisions Has Its Own Distinctive Manners, Culture Early Appalachian Marriage Customs: Most Relationships Prearranged By Family Members Early Canal System Employed Germans, Irish Early Hunting Was Not For Sport, But Life Early Indian Lifestyle Early Life On The Frontier, Hominy Block: Pioneer Way Of Making Meal Early Pioneers Lived In One-Room Log Cabins, Heated By Fireplace In Which Wood Was Cooked Early Resident Tells Of Timber Harvesting Here During 1800s Early Road Building And Transportation Involved Lots Of Planning, Manpower Early Southern Church Problems Early Stations Or Forts Early Vocations And Schools East Campbell Businesses Flourished East Tennesseans Voted Against Referendums For Civil War Secession Eight Horsemen Killed In Powell Valley Elder John Seiber, Pioneer Baptist Preacher F Famed Naturalist John Muir's Journal Reported Travels In Remote Tennessee, North Carolina Family of John Housely and Margaret E. Taylor First Methodist Church In Area Established Before 1840, But 1842 Revival Spurred Growth First Recorded Indian Massacre On Powell's River Claimed Daniel Boone's Son, Others First Settlements In Powell's Valley Followed Purchase Of Land By Henderson And Company Foods Of The Early Tavern And Household Four Militia Soldiers From Powell Valley Slain Frank, William Hancock Became First Settlers Of Walnut Grove, Between Rivers Fratersville Explosion Killed 184 Miners In Anderson County G Ginseng, In Use For More Than 2,000 Years In China, Has Been Prized Cash Crop For Mountain Residents Good Poplar, Pine White Oak Logs Brought $5 Apiece When Rafted Down The Clinch River Growing Up With Aprons H The Hatfield Family Of Campbell County History Of Briceville And The Coal Industry History Of Briceville Schools History Of The Presbyterian Church Hundreds Of Boys Worked In Area Coal Mines From Early Morning To Evening, Missing School   I Indian And White Engagements Irish William Murphy First Baptist Minister To Preach Word In Campbell County - In 1797 Iron Works Established on Grant's Creek in 1801, Became Baker's Forge In 1822 Irwin Family In Campbell County , Tennessee And Vicinity J James Kennon: Pioneer Baptist Preacher Jellico Got Its Name From ??????? Jellico's Early School System Joseph Janeway, Pioneer Baptist Preacher K The Keelboat and Flatboat The Kentucky Long Rifle Knoxville In Olden Times Knoxville, LaFollette, Jellico Railroad Completed April 3, 1905; Jellico-Knoxville Line Built in 1893 L Laban Sharp, Entrepreneur Of 1800s, Predicted Town Would Stand Where Lafollette Is Located LaFollette Hotels of the Past Lafollette Presbyterian Church Traces Its Roots To 1920s Gathering Over Drug Store "The Land of the Lake " Excerpts as Written by Dr. G.L. Ridenour (Part I) "The Land of the Lake " Excerpts as Written by Dr. G.L. Ridenour (Part II) The Lay Family Of Elk Valley Played Significant Role During The Civil War Life Of A Coal Miner; Its Slow Progress: Boy Begins In Breaker, Old Man Ends In Breaker Like Melungeons, There's Not Definite Record Of Beginnings Of 'Black Dutch,' Writer Finds Living In New Country: Every Day Another Challenge Long Before I-75, Dixie Highway Was Main Route Through Lafollette As First North-South Interstate Long Hunters Got Their Name From Duration Of Hunt Longhunters Were First To Penetrate Wilds Of Tennessee, Kentucky, Then The West M Maj. Gen. Joseph Alexander Cooper Tried To Muster Union Support In Campbell County Manskers' Travels Include Local Area Maple Sugar and Maple Syrup Mining Town Of Beech Grove Was Well Managed, With Large Commissary, Movie Theater, Game Room Miscellaneous Items Concerning Campbell County Modern-Day Practice Began In Tennessee Church In 1910 N New River Lumber Industry's Existence Depended On Railroad That Reached Into Area From Oneida O Observer Says American Indians Feasted on Vension, Green Corn, 'Kind of Hominy' Potatoes During 1700S Official Records Of Civil War Recount Various Skirmishes In Powell's Valley,Cumberland Gap Old Fashioned Water Wheel Old Miami Trail Has Traversed The Ages Old Newspaper Article Describes 'Pure Italian Blue Gem Coal,' Mined In Jellico, Market's Best One Million Native Americans Occupied Present United States In 1500 Spoke Over 100 Dialects Overhill Cherokees, Who Sold Land To Henderson & Co., Caught In Struggle Between English, French P Pete Ellison Recalls Early Funerals In Jellico; One Minister's Service Went 7 Hours With 16 Speakers Philip Francis----Coal Miner Philip Francis,. Pennsylvanian Of Welsh Descent, Spent 72 Years Mining Coal Here Pine Mountain Stretches As Fault Ridge From Elk Gap At Pioneer To Sandy Breaks, Kentucky Place Names In Campbell County Political History Of Tennessee Began In 1772 With Adoption Of 'Written Articles Of Association' Prehistoric Inhabitants in the Vicinity of Jellico , Tennessee Produce Prices in the Mid-19th Century Progenitor Of Family Here Died In Indian Battle Prominent Residents Of Jacksboro In April 1900 Included Familiar Campbell County Family Names Pryor A. Morton, Pioneer Baptist Preacher R Recalling Pioneer Baptist Preachers Revolutionary War Figure Thomas Paine Proposed Plan For 'Modern' Social Insurance In 1795 Reconstruction in Tennessee S The Saga Of J.P. 'Johnny' Goins Sequoyah Had Profound Impact On Educating, Improving Cherokee Nation The Scotch-Irish Migration Patterns Into Tennessee The Seiber Family A Short History Of Area Railroads Smithburg Came A Long Way In Five Years Before Arrival Of Railroads, Renaming Of Town To Jellico Snake Tales And May Snowstorms Pepper The Writings Of Local Resident Ozias Muse The Soap Making Process from the Olden Days Southern Baptist History Spanish American War Camp, Banks, Church Revival, Store Move Made Page 1 In 1930 Speedwell Academy Spiritual Gloom Pervaded America at the End of the 1700s, No More than 5 Percent Claimed Church Membership 'Southern Baptists' Grew Out Of Civil War Strife, Shaping, Characterizing Southern Society State Of Franklin Created Before Tennessee Was Carved Out Of North Carolina Territory Stinking Creek Traces Its Name To Bitterly Cold Winter Of 1779-80 When Animals Perished Story Captures Coal Mine Conditions Story Of The Longhunters In The Beginning A Summary Of The States That Seceded From The Union Sure-Footed, Sturdy Mules, Stabled Underground, Often Used To Haul Coal Cars Inside Mines Surnames And Their Origin Surveyors Error In Drawing 'Walker Line' Kept Tennessee, Kentucky At Odds For Many Years Surviving Wives Desperately Fight Off Attack By Indians On Their Settlement At Ennis Bottom T Taking Cattle And Hogs To Market Common Sight In Early Tennessee Days As Drover Business Thrived Tennessee's Early Distilling Process Tennessee's First Agricultural Bureau Organized under President Andrew Johnson; Fair Held Following Year Tennessee's Name Dates Back To 1567 Spanish Explorer Captain Juan Pardo Tennessee River Valley Resources Tennessee -- The Volunteer State The Tennessee Walking Horse Tennessee Working Man Described as Free Spirited, Arising From Frontier Past Thanksgiving Day History The Trail Of Tears They Weren't Superhighways, But Buffalo, Indian Trails Were First 'roads' Used By American Pioneers Thomas McClain Tangled With Indians, Built Stone House That Still Stands In 1806-08 Tobacco, Cash Crop For Many Campbell Countians, Was In Use By American Indians As Early As 1 B.C. Tobacco Use in Days Gone By Tree Harvesting In The Cumberlands U Union Army's Hardtack Considered Nutritious All-Purpose Meal For Soldiers - Weevils And All Union, Confederate Forces Faced Off Skirmishes At Big Creek Gap, Jacksborough Union Strategy During The Civil War Union Tennessee Volunteers 1st Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Unprecedented Lafollette Fire Of 1904 Left 31 Businesses, 10 Saloons, In Ashes V Veterans Pensions Were Offered During The 1800s Volunteer State Soldiers Played Large Role In War Of 1812's Battle For New Orleans W Walnut Grove, At Forks Of Clinch, Powell Rivers, Had One-Room Frame School That Burned In 1889 Wampum, North America’s First Monetary System Well Spring Methodist Church Began In 1893; It Operated 9 Months As Private School, 3 As Public Who Are The Melungeons? There Are As Many Theories As Researchers On Puzzling Question William Lay (1809-1907) Had Impact On Communities In East Tennessee William Pauley William Pittman And Henry Scaggs: Longhunters Women Had Difficult Time In Early Years - Worked Hard, Girls Hardly Ever Had Schooling Woodsons, Kincaids, Agees Trace Their History In Campbell County Area Back To Mid-1800s Y Young Civil War Recruits Had To Learn Process Of Soldiering Hard Way - On Long Marches Z Zie Muse Recounts Experience Of Being Lost, Desperate In Maze Of Abandoned Coal Mine

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