I’m only surprised it wasn’t inhabited by zombies who voted for Obama.
Looks in better shape than Detroit.
It was so long ago, that back then the Volunteers actually beat Florida in football.
It’s Elkmont.
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.
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.
and no dueling banjo’s??
From the comments:
Chip Woods, Gatlinburg, United States, 4 hours ago
This is no discovery. And you dont have to hike a mile up a un named road. You can drive up to each house. And it is paved. It was an old resort and hotel about 10 miles past Gatlinburg Tennessee. Ive lived here all my life and have known about this place over 30 years. Its not been abandoned 100 years the last time it was up and running was around late 1980's. What is the purpose of an article like this? People will never stop amazing me at what lengths they will go to prove they're idiots.
I call BS on this one.
“Untouched for 100 years”? lol
Looking at the images, did they have folding metal chairs and cable cars in 1914? I SERIOUSLY doubt it. That’s just what I noticed at first glance. I’m sure I’d see more things if I REALLY looked over them.
The person that wrote this is an idiot.
Damn.
My bug out location has been discovered.
Untouched for 100 years? Were there really electric chair lifts 100 years ago? And plastic?
Was an old club for the wealthy built in 1911 and abandoned when the wonderland club when kaput in Knoxville !
I was once hunting deep into the Eglin AFB reservation. I was several miles back in the woods and began wondering if another human being had ever been in that particular spot.
It was that far back in the boonies. A few seconds after wondering that, I looked down and saw an empty cigarette pack on the ground.