Still suffering the devastation of the Civil war that ended only ten years earlier, North Carolina shipped prison inmates from Raleigh to build the Mountain Div

Wait a minute! I thought a train could only travel on train tracks! How did the locomotive get from the valley to the top of the mountain before the rails were

What was that?!? DID I JUST SEE A GEYSER? Wait ... I just saw another one! No, that’s not possible. We’re on a train in the mountains, and ... There!! I SAW

The Great Smoky Mountains were a remote and inaccessible place with no major highways or railroads until well after the Civil War. Using first enslaved and late

Old Fort is situated near the headwaters of the mighty Catawba River, and in many ways it has also stood at the headwaters of American history--it takes its nam