>X-From_: [email protected] Sat Jun 19 11:58:14 1999 >From: [email protected] >Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:04:39 -0400 >To: Harold Miller <[email protected]> >CC: [email protected] >Subject: Re: early people to eastern TN >References: <[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 > >