This is the old abandoned train depot at Orme. The tracks are gone long ago. The ticket booth can be seen protruding from the front outside wall like a bay window. A lot of the glass is broken out of the windows, but luckily that is not so evident from this angle. This depot was on a railroad line that ran from Chattanooga to Nashville, and was owned by the NC and St. Louis Railroad. One branch of the tracks…
This cave currently is flooded by Nickajack Lake. The water area in the photo once was dry land on a farm. In the 1960’s I remember finding arrowheads all around in front of the cave. This was the site of some of Marion County’s first residents- Cherokee (or the branch called Chickamauga) Indians. It was the Nickajack Indian Settlement, and it seems several Indians from there assimilated into the “white man’s” world and are ancestors of some of the present-day…
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