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There was also an area where the Clinch and Powell rivers meet which is now a game management area where my moms family lived. When the lake was built most persons in that area were bought out because it was such a remote area. But I can remember persons still living in that area in the late 1960's. When my grandmother was alive we'd drive through the area and she could literally tell us who lived where. This was in an area called White Creek and Lost Creek on the Clinch River side. My mom was born in the town of Loyston shown in the pictures which was flooded for Norris Lake. I like doing genealogy look ups on my mom and dads family when I get a chance. With that you learn a lot of history.
Looking at the picture captioned "Mule-powered plowing on the Melton farm, Anderson County, TN. National Archives." If I'm looking at where I think I am a Walmart and interstate would be in the background. That area is also called Bethel. I suspect this because my uncle was related to the Melton family and he was raised in that neighborhood. The Faust family mentioned is most likely "Foust" and is a mis-print. I say this because Foust is a very common name in this area and there are no Faust listed in the local phone book. It's like looking up the name Vandergriff/Vandagriff/Vandargriff it's all the same family. I know of a cemetery where a lot of that family is buried some of which are kin and about six spelling variants of the same family name.
My wife's family is from the other side of the valley in the Sevier County area in the Smoky Mountain foothills. She is decended from the Thomas/McCown families who first settled and at one point owned a good chunk of land in what is now Sevierville and Pigeon Forge.