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| (c) 2012 Cathy Kennedy’s Blog |
Last week, I wrote about Hometowns USA in which I mentioned Jonesborough, TN. This past weekend, we visited the quaint town for the first time in many years.
Strolling the streets of Jonesborough is like stepping back in time. There are structures which date as far back as the late 1700s, such as the Chester Inn where three US Presidents slept – Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, & James K. Polk and the Washington County courthouse pictured below.
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Interesting facts about Jonesborough:
- Jonesborough is Tennessee’s oldest city established in 1779
- Listed as one of the top ten most haunted towns in America
- Storytelling Capital of the World
- Receives about 100,000 from around the world annually
- Home to a Natural History Museum at the Gray Fossil Site, where you can see the remains of shovel-tusked elephant, a semi-aquatic pot-bellied rhino, a saber tooth tiger, red panda, alligator or even a humpless camel.
The historic district of Jonesborough is currently under restoration. The city is burying utility lines underground to return the street view to its simplicity and charm from the 1700s. We hope to return in the coming months when temperatures cool a bit to do another photo shoot and to tour more of the old buildings.
T2Q:
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| Women wearing period clothing in Jonesborough |
- Thinking about the past, sometimes causes us to daydream about what it would have been to live hundreds of years ago. If you could, would you want to live in another time? For how long – a day, a week, years?
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What do you like most about the past – the way of life, the fashion, the buildings, ….?
Visit Miss Jenny and the rest of the Alphabe-Thursday classroom for more homework assignments of the letter ‘I’ and while you’re hopping around, be sure to play along with Miss Amanda in her latest edition of Thursday Two Questions.