Helen, If you do recall the name of the book that described the travels of persons migrating from the Holstein River area to Nashville, I would be very interested. My Laughlin Family may have taken that route. I know from the Dairy of Samuel Hervey Laughlin that he rode by horseback as a young man, but I believe that those taking the families and goods would have taken another route - probably the rivers. Delores King [email protected] wrote: > Subject: > > SHENANDOAH-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 117 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: early people to eastern TN [[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from SHENANDOAH-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: early people to eastern TN > Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:04:39 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Several years ago I found an old book (written early > 1800s) on the migration of early settlers to Middle > Tennessee. > > I do not recall the title/author of the book, but I > distinctly remember the descriptions of the trip. > > Early settlers did, as Mary stated, travel down the > Holsten River to the Tennessee River. Then they > rafted the full length (several hundred miles) of > the Tennessee River to the Ohio River, and down the > Ohio to the Cumberland River, thence to Middle > Tennessee. > > This meant that the settlers had to cross TN from S to > N, travel through a section of Northern AL, back through > TN from S to N, across KY to the Ohio to the Cumberland > River - still more than a hundred miles from Nashville. > > I have never attempted to calculate the mileage, but it > was a VERY long trip. The Tennessee Valley Authority on > Muscle Shoals Blvd (or Rd/St) in Knoxville could probably > provide this information. > > The book also spoke of the Indians who stalked the settlers > along the river banks, killing many of them. > > If possible, I will provide a reference to the book in a > few weeks. > > Helen Gant Donald