Mike, You gotta read this one. !!! What a hoot. I had a good laugh over it. If I ever go to Cross Mountain will take several different kinds of maps and a GPS!!!!! Cuz, Janet At 08:30 AM 9/11/2007, you wrote: >Well, that explains it. I just KNEW there had to be a reason! I guess we >met so many friendly, helpful people down there that vandals never crossed >my mind. >Nancy > >-Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:02 AM >Subject: Re: [TNSCOTT] Scott County > > Nancy > > Almost all of the roads in Scott County have road signs ........ But they > > are pilled up at the jail house. Vandals tore them all down. > > Stephen>> > >>(From) Rosemary > >>(From Nancy to the List) > >> We FINALLY found that Trammell Cemetery at Capuchin, but it took a > >> helpful > >> local to lead us out of total lost-ness and head us in the right > >> direction. > >> And the Cemetery Book - which we were not able to get our hands on until > >> the > >> next day - has an error regarding this cemetery, anyway. At the end of > >> the > >> instructions, it tells us to turn left, whereas we have to turn RIGHT. I > >> will pass that on to the publisher. Once you reach the turn area, it's > >> only > >> a short distance to the cemetery. And we did find (g-g-g-grandparents) > >> David and Lucinda TRAMMELL's stones, for which we were very excited. > >> > >> We were glad that the "local" had told us that we were going up over the > >> mountain on "a scary road"... she was quite right! Bottomed out at one > >> point and knew that - with no cell signal and no clue where we were, > >> anyway - if we had fatally damaged our car's undercarriage, they would > >> eventually find our bleached bones!! > >> > >> Never did find Capuchin itself, despite Mapquest and others. > >> > >> Our only real problem with our visit to Scott County is that it's darned > >> hard to find your way on roads that look like a pile of spaghetti from > >> the > >> air and HAVE NO ROAD SIGNS!!!!! If I were suddenly wealthy, the first > >> thing > >> I'd do is to install road signs in Scott County! > >> > >> It's a beautiful area, and we had many great experiences, but lack of > >> road > >> signs made for a trip a whole lot more interesting than we needed. > >> > >> Thanks for your suggestions. They were excellent ones! > >> > >> Nancy > >> > > >Scott County Mailing List >Rae Davis-Smith List Administrator >raedsmith@hotmail.com > >Scott County Message Board >http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.tennessee.counties.scott/mb.ashx > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >TNSCOTT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message Always Remember: Without documentation, genealogy is mythology!