McVeigh, Kentucky is a former coal camp in Pike County, one of a cluster of company towns — including nearby Stone, McAndrews, and Hardy…
Narrows, Virginia takes its name from the dramatic point where the New River cuts through the ridges of East River and Peters Mountains —…
Spencer, West Virginia carries one of the more unusual origin stories among American county seats. In 1839, a man named Raleigh Butcher sold his…
Maryville, Tennessee sits at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains, in a region whose springs once drew visitors from across the country to…
Robertsville, Missouri traces its name to Edward James Roberts, who arrived from Virginia in 1830 at just 14 years old and went on to…
Hays, North Carolina sits in Wilkes County, a region once known nationwide as the “Moonshine Capital of the World,” where bootleggers running illegal liquor…
Cookeville, Tennessee once cared so much about keeping saloons out of town that it dissolved its own incorporation to do it. In the 1880s,…
Pineville, West Virginia sits at the mouth of Rockcastle Creek, in the shadow of Castle Rock — a 165-foot sandstone cliff that towers over…
Greeneville, Tennessee is the third-oldest town in the state, founded in the 1780s and once the short-lived capital of the breakaway State of Franklin.…
Willis, Virginia sits in Floyd County, on the Blue Ridge Plateau near a landscape whose very name comes from the land itself: early settlers…