Family Tree Nuts
If you survived made it to shore, then you’d have to worry about the local Indians. It was called “The Killer Inlet” and the bones of poor sailors are scattered along the shoreline under the sand. Ponce de Leon Lighthouse is located at the Ponce de Leon Inlet, about 20 miles south of Daytona Beach,…
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He arrived here in 1769, and his home is still here. Well, at least his temporary home. How could that be? This isn’t Boston, and there’s no structures around here that old. Well, you’ll never guess where it is. Down on the Cumberland River, is what is most likely the first home in Nashville, Tennessee.…
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Ned said, “Daniel, I don’t believe there’s an Indian within 100 miles of this place”. He couldn’t have been any more wrong. To tell the story, we visite the gravesite of Edward Boone, better known as Ned Boone or Neddy Boone. Ned Boone is the brother of the famous, Daniel Boone and actually Daniel and…
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Some say it’s the birthplace of Bourbon Whiskey, it has the oldest bridge in Kentucky, and it’s one of the first settlements in the American west, Georgetown, Kentucky. In 1774, Deputy Surveyor for Fincastle County, Colonel John Floyd came here to locate lands to compensate soldiers from the French and Indian War. On 7 July…
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She was the first US Pilot to encounter the Japanese Air Fleet bearing down on Pearl Harbor, and even avoided a strafing attack by a Japanese Zero and lived to tell the story. Cornelia Fort has a small airport named for her in Nashville, Tennessee. She was one of America’s first female pilots and…
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The ruthless Confederate guerrilla Captain William Quantrill, the commander of the infamous Quantrill’s Raiders, met his final demise in a lonely Spencer County, Kentucky field. Family Tree Nuts teamed up with Mr. Davis Downs, a lifelong resident of Spencer County, Kentucky, who grew up, and still lives about a mile and a half form where…
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Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his Morgan’s Raiders were notorious for their swift and effective attacks on Union targets but they also were successful in interrupting their supply lines. The Big South Tunnel which lies between Gallatin and Portland, Tennessee on the L&N Railroad was a location of extreme strategic importance for both the…
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We may find it odd today that a man of the cloth would be involved in the production of distilled spirts but our ancestors likely wouldn’t have thought anything about it. Many joke and say that they wonder if it was “just for medicinal purposes” but it certainly was not. Bourbon whiskey has become a…
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In our last installment, Sam Houston Part III – Early Political Career, we discussed the different roles Houston played in the early political scene in Tennessee, and how, with the help of several influential mentors and allies, he secured a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1823, won reelection in 1825, and was elected…
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September 26, 1820…As a student of history and an avid Daniel Boone devotee, I simply could not let this day pass without paying homage to the man who arguably shaped the nation by helping to blaze the trail into Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap that led to the great influx of settlers seeking new lands…
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