by Chad Bailey | Aug 23, 2018 | Digging for your Roots
By: Judge John L. Kiener The period of significance listed in the Knob Creek Historic District designation is 1750-1799 and 1925 to 1949. The description of the “diamond-shaped” area stated that it included nearly 137 acres with Indian Ridge on the northwest,...
by Chad Bailey | Aug 23, 2018 | Digging for your Roots
By: Judge John L. Kiener (Editor’s Note: Following is how the Mill Spring became the name-sake of Spring Street in Jonesborough according to the following poem about the Mill and Brook Spring given by Sarah Kate Whitaker to George Campbell with a written...
by Chad Bailey | Aug 23, 2018 | Digging for your Roots
By: Judge John L. Kiener The Lamar History Club hosted Community Involvement Day on Saturday, March 16th at LamarSchool in Washington County. A meeting of the Washington County Historical Association was held at the school with 27 people in attendance. In...
by Chad Bailey | Aug 23, 2018 | Digging for your Roots
By: Judge John L. Kiener I have a rare book that is an invaluable finding aid to researching “The Wataugah Purchase.” The book is titled “The Wataugah Purchase At Sycamore Shoals March 19, 1775 – AN INDEX.” The Index preceded by a historical “FOREWORD” was...
by Chad Bailey | Aug 23, 2018 | Digging for your Roots
By: Judge John L. Kiener (Editor’s Note: Continued from the 11th day of September 2012. This is Part XXXVII of the “Autobiography or Memoirs of Dr. Abraham Jobe of Elizabethton, Tennessee: Written by Himself.” In this chapter of his 300 page autobiography, Dr....
by Chad Bailey | Aug 23, 2018 | Digging for your Roots
By: Judge John L. Kiener (Editor’s Note: Continued from the 9th day of October 2012. Tom Cole left the USS Melvin [D D 680] on Friday, April 20, 1945. His diary continued until Saturday, May 12, 1945. During the crew of the Melvin’s reunion in San Luis Obispo,...
