This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EeB.2ACE/411.1 Message Board Post: Crab Orchard is the old name for Roan Mountain in Carter County. Old deeds refer to it as the Great Crab Orchard supposedly named for the crab apple trees growing wild there.