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Power was the new big thing at the time. The Chickamauga Dam (middle of Chattanooga) was almost finished an TVA wanted everyone coming in to the city to fall in love with electric power. TVA was not though highly of at the time outside the city an needed to change peoples minds. Did not really work. The people in the City had all these new jobs but the communities around the city just saw the government coming in an taking away good farmland by force. Where I am anyway it was the 1960s before people started adopting TVA power in mass. Right about the time TVA got done flooding people out of their homes. In door plumbing would take about 20 more years though.
 
The picture reminded me of the parade scene in The Christmas Story.

We did some camping, 25 years back, in you neck of the country and I was less impressed with the lakes and fishing than I was hurt by how awful it must have been for families to have lost great grandpa's farm... through no doing of their own. Not a hurricane or locusts or fire... but for the greater good. Not theirs of course, but somebodies.
It just made me really sad.
 
Yea, most people dont even know families were uprooted in the "new deal." Nickajack Dam is the closest one to me an probably the last one built. It was built to replace an older failing dam so it only effected 6 miles of river where most of the others would have effected around 30. Just those 6 miles flooded 8,300 acres of the best farm land in the country, a whole town, a native camp that was probably thousands of years old an a huge cave system that was a well known tourist attraction. 82 families were displaced. People my grandmother knew. She went to dances at that town. It never crosses the minds of most people out on that lake but I have a hard time forgetting that town is down there. An that is just those 6 miles. Think of what the whole TVA project did as a whole?
 
Yea, that is all I could think about. What was down there? Graves, and history, things that could not be put in a wagon and hauled to higher ground. The Indian artifacts and Holy grounds. It hurt my soul.
 
So, much of our history gets "swept under the rug". Our children need to know the good and the bad of what has made our country what it is. Maybe if the "bad" of letting the government have total control was understood, people would not be so willing to give up their freedoms...
 
ugh, all for "progress". How far have we really come if all we do is destroy family's homes and livelihoods in the process?
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3goodeggs said:
Thank you for the history lesson. If you do not know what to look for, you do not know it exists.
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An most people dont know. An I am far from an expert an only know the basics. Knowing that the Chickamauga were the local Cherokee is about all the locals here ever learn.

We have a local facebook group that is supposed to be about local stuff. They spent a month talking about natives but it was all famous natives out west. I told them those people never stepped foot in this part of the country an they should be talking about local history. In stead of admitting she knew nothing about local native history she blocked me, deleted all my comments an posted that I had posted raciest posts an hated natives so had to be banned.

I would be shocked if Dragging Canoe, Turtle-at-Home or any of the original native names for the towns these people live in now have ever even been mentioned on that page.
 

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