Fred, You were in a hurry and didn't read the next paragraph under the map, huh ? Or did you get tired of "Rocky Top" playing ? :^>. Should I put a music on/off option near the top of the page, instead of the bottom ? What are your thoughts ? At any rate, in 1834, there was a small village called Mitchellsville, at the future Manchester site. They renamed it Manchester, when the county was organized, in 1836. Because of the abundant local water power they had hopes it would become a great manufacturing city, like Manchester, England. "Stone Fort" was located about one mile to the west, on the other side of the river junction. The existing falls were higher there, thus simplifying mill ponds, races, etc. Several mills were already in place by 1830-40. Both areas kinda grew together in the mid 1800s, but our Yankee friends destroyed much of the manufacturing facilities,(including a powder mill)in the 1860s. Much of the Stone Fort area was bought up by one or two families, with the idea of developing or preserving the Ancient Indian Ruins there. The descendants did eventually succeed in selling the area to the state, and it became "Old Stone Fort" State Park. You can see Mitchellsville and the "old Fort" on the map, but many early travel journals refer to the entire area as "Stone Fort". One of the local stopovers on the Nashville to Chattanooga stage road was named Stone Fort Tavern. -- Jess Lewis >> http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/ << >> http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/cannon.htm <<