Posted on 06/23/2010 5:49:37 AM PDT by C19fan
She may have set sail from Southampton on her ill-fated voyage to New York 98 years ago but the Titanic is alive and well - in rural Tennessee.
Standing 100 feet tall and three decks high, this 50 per cent scale replica of the famous ship's front bow is set to attract nearly one million visitors this year. Costing £16million and taking over one year to build, the Titanic of Pigeon Forge is billed as the world's largest museum attraction.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I thought a ship of nearly the same exact dimensions was supposed to be built but instead had true watertight integrity and a modernized propulsion system for tourism.
Last I recall it was actually being done somewhere possibly in Holland.
I heard that too. That would be great. The ships of that time put today’s cruise ships to shame in aesthetics.
Well if you can't find Pigeon Forge the look up directions to Branson, Mo. They already have the same thing there - Link
It sure doesn't take much education to write for a newspaper these days!
Southeast of Knoxville, near Gatlinburg, just outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It’s a tourism/recreation area; the development was begun by Dolly Parton.
Adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. My wife & I spent a few days there this spring (the Titanic exhibit wasn’t open yet).
“where is Pigeon Forge, TN? “
Between Knoxville and Gatlinburg, TN
I guess it has come a long way since I first was there
in the mid 50s.
Between Gatlinburg and Sevierville, SE of Knoxville. It's a big tourist trap area at the entrance to Great Smoky Mtn. NP; hardly "rural Tennessee" (unless maybe you live in Manhattan and don't know what real "rural" looks like).
The Dollywood theme park is in Pigeon Forge.
Pigeon Forge needed a place to store Dolly’s assets.
A tacky town next to the larger tacky town of Gatlinburg, TN.
Why it’s the home of Dolly Parton. Guess everything is big in Pigeon Forge—LOL!
Can Gatlinburg hold any more tourists???
Thanks for the photos. I wonder if the re-enactors got voice lessons so they reasonably sound British or WASP northeast American (First class passengers). Sort of odd to chat with a pretty crew member and she has a think TN accent, hee hee.
That's too creepy, bordering on disrespectful. I checked out the article, they seem to have done a great job with the representaions of the ship interiors. But the names of the dead on the tickets just goes over the line. Those people died horribly.
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