1958-Present
Logan’s General Store: A Highway 160 Landmark Since 1958
Logan’s General Store opened on Highway 160 in 1958, the same year aerial photographs still show the land that would […]
Suburban Development
How the county's rural roads and land became the modern subdivisions and interstate interchanges of today.
History
1968
The Founding of Smoke Rise
Before it was a subdivision, it was farmland and forest, visible in a 1958 aerial photo of the ridge east […]
1958-1967
I-65 and the Roads of Smoke Rise
Construction on Interstate 65 began in 1958, and the highway opened through this stretch of Blount County on April 1, […]
Present-day research
Tracing It With LIDAR
Much of what’s known about Reid’s Gap and the roads that predate Smoke Rise comes from LIDAR - laser-based elevation […]