{"id":57,"date":"2017-03-26T00:54:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T05:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/?p=57"},"modified":"2019-01-08T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T14:16:09","slug":"topography-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/topography-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Topography &#038; Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White County is in Middle Tennessee, in the Cumberland Mountains, midway between Nashville and Knoxville, and covers an area of 377 square miles. Called &#8220;the Mountain District&#8221;, it&#8217;s scenery is said to rival the Swiss Alps. The Center Hill Lake and Recreation Area lies at the eastern boundry of the county, the &#8220;Calf Killer&#8221; River runs through the middle of the county, and the beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caney_Fork_River\" target=\"_blank\">Caney Fork River<\/a> runs around the southwestern border, near the Warren and DeKalb County lines. Earliest migration was by frontiersmen coming through the Cumberland Gap, but later settlement was due in part to a highway between Knoxville and Nashville that was opened in 1785.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the early settlers of White County came from Hyde County, NC. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/hyde\/migration\/hydemove.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hyde County Migration<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White County is in Middle Tennessee, in the Cumberland Mountains, midway between Nashville and Knoxville, and covers an area of 377 square miles. Called &#8220;the Mountain District&#8221;, it&#8217;s scenery is said to rival the Swiss Alps. The Center Hill Lake <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/topography-migration\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}