Bartonsville, Pennsylvania was founded in 1831 by Colonel Joseph Benjamin Barton, who opened a hotel and post office along the old Easton-Belmont Turnpike stagecoach…
Procious, West Virginia takes its name from Adam Procious, a Civil War veteran who brought his family to Clay County from Pennsylvania by houseboat,…
Ellijay, Georgia has built its identity around the “Apple Capital of Georgia” nickname, with orchards climbing the hills of Gilmer County and a growing…
Murphy, North Carolina sits at the confluence of the Hiwassee and Valley Rivers, on land the Cherokee once called Tlanusi-yi, “the Leech Place,” after…
Elizabethton, Tennessee sits at a spot historians consider one of the most important in the entire state. In 1772, settlers along the Watauga River…
Harman, West Virginia sits in a narrow valley between the Allegheny Mountains and Rich Mountain, a town of fewer than 100 people incorporated in…
Mountain City, Tennessee sits at 2,418 feet above sea level, making it the highest incorporated town in the entire state — a genuine claim…
The Ice Mountain community near Capon Bridge, West Virginia takes its name from a genuine natural wonder next door. Ice Mountain itself, a National…
Mathias, West Virginia sits along a river with a genuinely strange trick: the Lost River flows for roughly 30 miles through Hardy County before…
Roanoke, Virginia grew so fast after the Norfolk & Western Railway arrived in the 1880s that locals started calling it the “Magic City” —…