Posted on 10/05/2014 8:14:26 PM PDT by lowbridge
One man made the discovery of a lifetime while out on a recent hike.
Jordan Liles, who currently lives in San Diego, California, was in Tennessee back in May 2013 when he decided to take some photos during a trek through Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Those photos turned out to be incredibly interesting when the young man managed to stumble across a seemingly forgotten town in the woods.
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Haha! That was my thought, too...
I’m only surprised it wasn’t inhabited by zombies who voted for Obama.
Looks in better shape than Detroit.
If they were in East Tennessee and voted for Obama, they certainly wouldn’t be alive.
It was so long ago, that back then the Volunteers actually beat Florida in football.
It’s Elkmont.
It was, but not even they could exist without jobs.
If the Ebola gets really bad, I know where I’m going ...
Not knowing the exact location of the abandoned town, I would speculate that it was one of the towns that were to be flooded by the TVA and for some reason it never happened.
OR some politician wanted the land for some scheme that did not or has not panned out.
Either way, I suspect the town was swindled away from the former residents and owners.
When I see this kind of thing it really saddens me.
Real people worked with their hands to build something — a whole town in this case (it saddens me even more when I see 2/3 completed projects in Mexico that stay uncompleted for years).
Someone designed this, workers built it, people used it, then it is abandoned and all that effort gone, like tears in the rain.
Maybe I am maudlin old fool...
There are not too many places in the lower 48 that are not visited regularly. This is NOT one of them according to the comments on the article.
In NEw England there are not too many places where you can hike 20 miles without coming across a decent road. Exceptions would be in the Northern parts of Maine.
I’m sure it’s similar most everywhere east of the Mississippi.
That game was embarrassing on every level. God help either team if Mississippi looms.
Still has glass panes in the windows of the “hotel”
Incidentally, it’s hardly a discovery. It’s part of the park, and is an abandoned resort. It’s not untouched at all. The entire story is absurd.
It set college football back 20 years.
And our game with LSU might be even uglier than that. Sorry people are actually going to pay to watch it.
and no dueling banjo’s??
It’s in the GSMNP. It’s not unknown, its just left alone.
A lot of the original window frames and other things were stolen last year.
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