Hero Day at the West Blount Corn Maze, Warrior Day and the Pride of Hayden Marching Festival are all Saturday, Oct. 17. Hours, addresses and the weekend forecast.
A new road and playground at Rickwood Caverns, and a 110-year-old railroad story resurfacing at the same spot.
A thin line on an 1818 map led me to a Creek town, a vanished road, and a question I am still trying to answer: which way did the Black Warrior Road run through Brown's Valley?
Logan’s General Store opened on Highway 160 in 1958, the same year aerial photographs still show the land that would […]
Before it was a subdivision, it was farmland and forest, visible in a 1958 aerial photo of the ridge east […]
Construction on Interstate 65 began in 1958, and the highway opened through this stretch of Blount County on April 1, […]
Much of what’s known about Reid’s Gap and the roads that predate Smoke Rise comes from LIDAR - laser-based elevation […]
Beginning around 1903, Edward J. Bryan assembled roughly 2,600 acres around Reid’s Gap into Mont Eyrie Orchards - “an apt […]
On April 24, 1908, an F4 tornado tore a 105-mile path from near Dora in Walker County northeast to Sylvania […]
The push for a highway along this route didn’t start with the rail-bed conversion - it started two years earlier, […]
In mid-July 1878, a stranger calling himself Sherwood approached W.C. Reid - a Blount County man living near Reid’s Gap, […]
A well drilled at Reid’s Gap around 1891 had sat plugged and abandoned for a decade - the original prospectors […]