Author: Alan Brown

Roan Mountain is awash in history. For many years, the little town was a whistle stop on the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad. The narrow gauge railway carried passengers from Johnson City, Tennessee, to Boone,...

From a historical viewpoint, Elizabethton is one of the most fascinating small towns in Tennessee. Originally called the Watauga Settlement at Sycamore Shoals, it was the first permanent settlement outside of the original...

Highway ghosts are fairly common in Tennessee. The Bristol Highway is said to be haunted by Long Dog, a family pet that was brutally killed by the notorious outlaw John Murrell. People traveling along the old stagecoach road...

The Victorian shingle-style brick house that is now Prospect Hill Bed and Breakfast Inn was built in 1889 of hand-made brick by Joseph Wagner, who served as a major in the Union Army during the Civil War. Wagner was a prosperous...

In local folklore, abandoned hospitals are the perfect breeding ground for ghosts, most likely because so many people die there. Not surprisingly, one of the most haunted sites in the entire United States—the Waverly Hills...