I totally agree - FYI I have a copy of a page from the newspaper (don't know the date) of the Durham Mine & Coal Co - if anyone wants a copy of this article, be glad to copy for you, if you provide a SASE - will provife my address if anyone is interested - delilah evans At 11:41 3/8/01 -0600, Jo Basden wrote: >Sue, on behalf of all of us GADADE-L list users, I must thank you for all of >the interesting information you are providing. Thank you SO much! Those of us >who have not been fortunate enough to visit our Dade County, but ARE fortunate >enough to have ancestors who lived there, are thankful for you. We appreciate >your kindness to share your information with us and enlighten us to facts that >will never be found in "vital records". THANK YOU!...Jo T. Basden<<<John Henry >& Martha Ann Wakefield Basden<David and Anna Rouse Basden - all of Dade County. > >Beverly Forrester wrote: > >> Durham Road runs east/west... from Highway 157 (east side of the mountain) >> to Scenic Highway (west side of the mountain). Over half of Durham Road is >> in Walker County. The tree that was pointed out to me as being the hanging >> tree was in Walker Co but there could have very well been two. >> >> I know who Mr Harmon is and have talked with him. He is a very interesting >> man to talk with. >> >> The commissary and most of the mining buildings were in Walker Co, near the >> Dade Co line. Except for slag piles there isn't anything there now. As >> heavily wooded as it is, it is hard to believe it was once a busy mining >> town with houses everywhere. >> >> There was a railroad that carried the coal from these mines, northward >> around Lula Lake. It then made a "U" turn at the east brow running south, >> then southeast off the mountain. From there it finally ended up in >> Chickamauga at the coke ovens. >> >> When we were growing up in Chattanooga Valley we would hike to the top of >> the mountain, walk the old railroad to Lula Lake just to spend the afternoon >> swimming. It was a lot of fun and I wish children now could do things like >> that. >> >> This was really OT. >> >> Sue > > >==== GADADE Mailing List ==== >For questions or comments regarding the GADADE list, >please contact Carla Cegielski: [email protected] > >

{I totally agree - FYI I have a copy of a page from the newspaper (don't know the date) of the Durham Mine & Coal Co - if anyone wants a copy of this article, be glad to copy for you, if you provide a SASE - will provife my address if anyone is interested - delilah evans} I'm interested, Delilah. Cindy