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” —…
Whitesburg, Georgia sits along the Chattahoochee River in Carroll County, on land that was once home to Creek leader William McIntosh before the area’s…
Birchwood, Tennessee sits where the Hiwassee River meets the Tennessee River, a rural crossroads carrying some of the region’s most significant history. Nearby Blythe…
Capon Bridge, West Virginia takes its name from the Cacapon River, itself derived from a Shawnee phrase, “Cape-cape-de-hon,” meaning “river of medicine water.” A…
La Fayette, Georgia takes its name from the Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer who fought alongside George Washington in the Revolutionary War. But…