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978-0-89587-129-9
0-89587-129-7
$16.95 paperback
7 1/2" x 8 1/2"
413 pages black-and-white photographs, maps appendix, index
Other books in the Touring the Backroads™ series:
Touring the Backroads
of North Carolina's Lower Coast
Touring the Backroads of
North Carolina's Upper Coast
Touring the Backroads of
North and South Georgia
Touring the Carolinas'
Civil War Sites
Touring the East
Tennessee Backroads
Touring North Carolina's
Revolutionary War Sites
Touring South Carolina's
Revolutionary War Sites
Touring the Shenandoah
Valley Backroads
Touring Virginia's and
West Virginia's Civil War Sites
Touring the Western
North Carolina Backroads
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Most people know Middle
Tennessee as the territory of David Crockett, Andrew Jackson, and Albert
Gore, Jr., and the region that brought us Jack Daniel's, Tennessee
Walking Horses, and Saturn automobiles.
But as the 15 tours in this
book reveal, there is more to Middle Tennessee than that. From the
western edge of the Cumberland Plateau to the Tennessee River, from
Kentucky to Alabama, this is an area of dense forests, swampy bottoms,
rolling bluegrass, and some of America's loveliest rivers.
Tourists and armchair
travelers alike will enjoy their visits to the Amish settlement near
Lawrenceburg; Rattle and Snap, perhaps the South's finest plantation;
Carnton, where the bodies of four Confederate general lay on the veranda
after the Battle of Franklin; the University of the South, boasting
America's largest campus; Shelbyville, with its beautiful stonework by
former slave James S. Gilliland; and Milky Way Farm, the home of candy
makers Frank and Ethel Mars. History buffs will be interested to learn
about "Bigbee" Nicholas Perkins and the capture of the
fugitive Aaron Burr, and why Sam Houston's wife wanted him dead within
48 hours of their marriage.
As revealed here, Middle
Tennessee is at once historic and vigorous. Just ask the people who take
in Columbia's Mule Day celebration every year.
about the author
Robert Brandt is a Nashville judge and an adjunct faculty member at
Vanderbilt University School of Law. He is the author of Tennessee
Hiking Guide and Middle
Tennessee on Foot. His articles have appeared in such magazines
as Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Tennessee
Conservationist, and Sierra.
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