Download or read book The Hidden History of McMinn County written by Joe D. Guy and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2007 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the serenity of McMinn County, in southeast Tennessee, lies a history that has long lain hidden in old newspaper stories, county records and the memories of McMinn's most venerable citizens. The Hidden History of McMinn County is the first-ever collection of articles from the popular regional newspaper column of historian Joe Guy. Here for the first time are little-known tales from a rich heritage that few now remember: the first railroad, the oldest depot, the last public hanging, a countywide election day revolution and shootout that drew national attention, buildings made of bricks that still bear the handprints of slaves, a famous mountain hermit and a court case that doomed an entire Indian nation. Sit back, explore and enjoy the fascinating Hidden History of McMinn County.
Download or read book McMinn County written by Joe Guy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McMinn County was founded in 1819 on land previously owned by the Cherokee Nation. Situated in Southeast Tennessee, McMinn County is halfway between Knoxville and Chattanooga, Atlanta and Bristol, and New York and Miami. For its citizens, it remains a rural county of mountain ridges with deep hollows and wide, creek-watered valleys; its different topography also defines the diverse people who, for 150 years, have called McMinn County home. Postcard History Series: McMinn County features many long-forgotten scenes from Athens, Englewood, and Etowah. All three have different histories, different people, and different stories to tell.
Download or read book McMinn County written by C. Stephen Byrum and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fighting Bunch written by Chris DeRose and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution, New York Times bestselling author Chris DeRose reveals the true, never-before-told story of the men who brought their overseas combat experience to wage war against a corrupt political machine in their hometown. Bill White and the young men of McMinn County answered their nation's call after Pearl Harbor. They won the freedom of the world and returned to find that they had lost it at home. A corrupt political machine was in charge, protected by violent deputies, funded by racketeering, and kept in place by stolen elections - the worst allegations of voter fraud ever reported to the Department of Justice, according to the U.S. Attorney General. To restore free government, McMinn's veterans formed the nonpartisan GI ticket to oppose the machine at the next election. On Election Day, August 1, 1946, the GIs and their supporters found themselves outgunned, assaulted, arrested, and intimidated. Deputies seized ballot boxes and brought them back to the jail. White and a group of GIs - "The Fighting Bunch" - men who fought and survived Guadalcanal, the Bulge, and Normandy, armed themselves and demanded a fair count. When they were refused the most basic rights they had fought for, the men, all of whom believed they had seen the end of war, returned to the battlefield and risked their lives one last time. For the past seven decades, the participants of the "Battle of Ballots and Bullets" and their families kept silent about that conflict. Now in The Fighting Bunch, after years of research, including exclusive interviews with the remaining witnesses, archival radio broadcast and interview tapes, scrapbooks, letters, and diaries, Chris DeRose has reconstructed one of the great untold stories in American history.
Download or read book McMinn County written by Mountain Press and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Acts of McMinn County Tennessee written by McMinn County (Tenn.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Permission Society written by Timothy Sandefur and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, kings and emperors have promised “freedoms” to their people. Yet these freedoms were really only permissions handed down from on high. The American Revolution inaugurated a new vision: people have basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and government must ask permission from them. Sadly, today’s increasingly bureaucratic society is beginning to turn back the clock and to transform America into a nation where our freedoms—the right to speak freely, to earn a living, to own a gun, to use private property, even the right to take medicine to save one’s own life—are again treated as privileges the government may grant or withhold at will. Timothy Sandefur examines the history of the distinction between rights and privileges that played such an important role in the American experiment, and how we can fight to retain our freedoms against the growing power of government. Illustrated with dozens of real-life examples—including many cases he litigated himself—Sandefur shows how treating freedoms as government-created privileges undermines our Constitution and betrays the basic principles of human dignity.
Download or read book Counties of Tennessee written by Austin P. Foster and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes important historical and statistical facts about each of Tennessee's counties including dates, names, and locations.
Download or read book Annual Report written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Tennessee written by Goodspeed Publishing Company Staff and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains biographical sketches of some 1,200 and genealogical data of some 30,000 other families / individuals for the following counties: Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Clairborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, James, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, Union, and Washington.
Download or read book McMinn County Tennessee and It s People 1819 1997 written by McMinn County Heritage Book Committee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hidden History of East Tennessee written by Joe Guy and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed author Joe Guy serves up a stout batch of East Tennessee history in this latest collection of articles from his popular newspaper column. From Chattanooga up to Knoxville, and every town and holler in between, Guy recounts the absorbing and oft-forgotten history of this great region with stories of revenuers, Overmountain Men, Confederate cavalry girls, and the lost tribe of the Hiwassee, just to name a few. Discover how easy it is to get lost in The Hidden History of East Tennessee.
Download or read book McMinn County Athens Tennessee written by Tennessee State Library and Archives and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed by the General Assembly written by Tennessee and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes acts of extraordinary and extra sessions (called 1920-29 Acts of the State of Tennessee passed by the General Assembly, and 1931-44 Public and private acts of the State of Tennessee pass by the General Assembly)
Download or read book History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed by the General Assembly written by Tennessee and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
