Blood
Mountain
& Slaughter
Creek, legend
has it, take their
names from battles
between competing
Creek & Cherokee .
Indian tribes. .
Union County
500
years ago,
Hwy. 129 was a
facts
key link in the “Great
White Path” that connected
the Smoky Mountains
to the Gulf of
Mexico.
Local
favorite sorghum
syrup was a staple in
homes in the early 1900s,
gracing biscuits daily, until
farm labor costs grew
and sugar prices
fell.
Completed in 1942, Nottely Dam is
197 feet high and 3,915 feet long.
Building the dam required the
purchase of 8,000 acres of land,
the redesign relocation of of 21 91 miles families of roads.
and the
Photo courtesy of Chad Lariscy