Cardiff was the dream child of Boston businessman H.C. Young who founded his dream on the iron ore underneath. He started selling lots and building the town in 1890. In 1893 the iron ore market collapsed and so did the Cardiff Coal and Iron company. The town never recovered and the mining was sold to the Brown Mining Company. Mining continued there until the 1920s and then basically people left. A few families remained, but farming is all they had to do. These families are what supported the only church in the Cardiff community, Cardiff Baptist church, which just celebrated it's 100th birthday. I am church historian and organist. The Roane County Industrial Park is made up from a lot of old Cardiff. Browntown which was the next mining camp between Cardiff and Emory Gap has been partially protected by the Tom Martin farm, what the interstate on the mountain didn't take. Jamey McLoughlin >Cardiff was a booming railroad town in the 1800's and early 1900's. I can >remember as a child visiting relatives there and going to the butcher shop >before going home. It was almost a ghost town by 1960. And today is only a >few homes and a business or two. The K-Mart that is in the process of >closing and the new Super-Wal-Mart were the merchants in that area today. On >the new road of course, the old Cardiff road was almost impassable in places >a few years ago. >Today Cardiff may be incorporated into either or both Rockwood and / or >Harriman. Depending on which end of the community your visiting. >Leota > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Joanne Turner" <joanneturner1@msn.com> >To: <TNROANE-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:04 PM >Subject: Re: [TNROANE] Rockwood > > >I lived in Rockwood for a time, and if I'm not mistaken, Cardiff is only a >section of Rockwood, not a town. The name of the paper there is the Roane >County News.

Thanks Jamey!!! I could not remember all the history when I was sending the note. Later Leota ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamey McLoughlin" <mclo3983@bellsouth.net> To: <TNROANE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [TNROANE] Cardiff Cardiff was the dream child of Boston businessman H.C. Young who founded his dream on the iron ore underneath. He started selling lots and building the town in 1890. In 1893 the iron ore market collapsed and so did the Cardiff Coal and Iron company. The town never recovered and the mining was sold to the Brown Mining Company. Mining continued there until the 1920s and then basically people left. A few families remained, but farming is all they had to do. These families are what supported the only church in the Cardiff community, Cardiff Baptist church, which just celebrated it's 100th birthday. I am church historian and organist. The Roane County Industrial Park is made up from a lot of old Cardiff. Browntown which was the next mining camp between Cardiff and Emory Gap has been partially protected by the Tom Martin farm, what the interstate on the mountain didn't take. Jamey McLoughlin >Cardiff was a booming railroad town in the 1800's and early 1900's. I can >remember as a child visiting relatives there and going to the butcher shop >before going home. It was almost a ghost town by 1960. And today is only a >few homes and a business or two. The K-Mart that is in the process of >closing and the new Super-Wal-Mart were the merchants in that area today. On >the new road of course, the old Cardiff road was almost impassable in places >a few years ago. >Today Cardiff may be incorporated into either or both Rockwood and / or >Harriman. Depending on which end of the community your visiting. >Leota > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Joanne Turner" <joanneturner1@msn.com> >To: <TNROANE-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:04 PM >Subject: Re: [TNROANE] Rockwood > > >I lived in Rockwood for a time, and if I'm not mistaken, Cardiff is only a >section of Rockwood, not a town. The name of the paper there is the Roane >County News. ==== TNROANE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe" in the subject line to TNROANE-L-request@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237