1937-1940
Bangor Cave: America’s Only Underground Nightclub
Bangor Cave, about four miles northeast of Blount Springs, was once billed as “the only underground nightclub in America.” The […]
Crime & Prohibition
Moonshine, saloons, train-robbery plots, and other run-ins with the law.
History
1895
The Gray Goose Saloon
In 1895, a whiskey shop called the “Gray Goose” - set up two or three years earlier by John Franklin […]
1916-1933
The Bee Line Highway & Prohibition Moonshine
The push for a highway along this route didn’t start with the rail-bed conversion - it started two years earlier, […]
1878
The Conspiracy to Rob the Train
In mid-July 1878, a stranger calling himself Sherwood approached W.C. Reid - a Blount County man living near Reid’s Gap, […]