Tennessee Legends and Lore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Dr. Alan N.

Series:

American Legends

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haunted places--Tennessee.

Haunted places.

Ghosts--Tennessee.

Ghosts.

Tennessee--History.

Tennessee.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2023.

Summary:

The Spooky Side of the Volunteer State Tennessee is steeped in legend. From strange sightings to odd and macabre crimes, the Volunteer State is no stranger to lore. Author Alan Brown details the haunts, troubling crimes and spooky past.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

1. Civil War Legends

The Battle of Fort Donelson (Dover)

The Battle of Franklin (Franklin)

The Battle of Lookout Mountain (Chattanooga)

The Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro)

Cherry Mansion (Savannah)

Shiloh National Battlefield (Hardin County)

2. Legendary Bad Men

Cullen Baker: War Hero or Psychopath? (Weakly County)

George "Machine Gun" Kelly Barnes (Memphis)

The Land Pirate of the Mississippi: John Murrell (Williamson County)

Robert Clay Allison (Wayne County)

When the Wildest of the Wild Bunch Came to Knoxville (Knoxville)

3. Legendary Cemeteries

Craigmiles Mausoleum (Cleveland)

Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis)

Fort Donelson National Cemetery (Dover)

Nashville City Cemetery (Nashville)

Old Gray Cemetery (Knoxville)

Read Ash Cemetery/Turley Cemetery (Caryville)

4. Legendary Locations

Bijou Theatre (Knoxville)

Cades Cove (Gatlinburg)

Drummond Bridge Trestle (Briceville)

Earnestine and Hazel's (Memphis)

Falcon Rest (McMinnville)

Graceland (Memphis)

The Hermitage (Nashville)

The Hunt-Phelan House (Memphis)

Loretta Lynn's Haunted Ranch (Hurricane Mills)

Meriwether Lewis National Monument (Hohenwald)

National Ornamental Metal Museum (Memphis)

The Orpheum Theatre (Memphis)

The Read House Hotel (Chattanooga)

Roaring Fork Nature Trail (Gatlinburg)

Ruby Falls (Chattanooga)

Ryman Auditorium (Nashville)

Sensabaugh Tunnel (Kingsport)

Union Station Hotel (Nashville)

Wheatlands Plantation (Sevierville)

Woodruff-Fontaine Mansion (Memphis)

5. Legendary Women

The Bell Witch (Adams)

The Lady in White of the Greenbrier Restaurant (Gatlinburg)

Mary B. Greene and the Delta Queen (Chattanooga)

Tall Betsy (Cleveland)

6. Legendary Lost Treasure.

The Lost Confederate Payroll (Bradley County)

The Lost Spanish Gold of Elk River (Pelham)

Perry Schults's Lost Mine (Grundy County)

7. Mysteries From The Skies

The Great Snake Shower (Memphis)

Tennessee's 1973 UFO Sightings (Middle Tennessee)

Where Did All the Dead Birds Come From? (Spring Hill)

8. Mysterious Disappearances

David Lang: Now You See Him, Now You Don't (Sumner County)

Dennis Martin: Lost in the Smokies (Great Smoky Mountains National Park)

Where Is Marsilene Smith? (Murfreesboro)

9. Mysterious Monsters

The Flintville Monster (Flintville)

The Pigman (Meeman-Shelby Forest, Germantown)

The Tennessee River Monster (Tennessee)

Tennessee Wildman (McNairy County)

The White Bluff Screamer (White Bluff)

10. Native American Legends

Black Bear Myths and Legends (Smoky Mountains)

Cherokee Creation Story (Tennessee)

Lover's Leap (Chattanooga)

Connestoga and Nocatula (Athens)

Reelfoot Lake (Northwest Tennessee)

Spearfinger (Smoky Mountains)

Tlanuhwa and Uhktena (Tennessee)

The Wampus Cat (Appalachian Trail)

11. University Legends

Austin Peay State University (Clarksville)

Eastern Tennessee State University (Johnson City)

Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate)

Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro)

Tennessee Wesleyan University (Athens)

University of Tennessee (Knoxville)

Bibliography

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Brown, Dr. Alan N. Tennessee Legends and Lore

ISBN:

9781439677124

OCLC:

1370499725