In the 1870s, a wellbeing resort was built in Pigeon Forge at Henderson Springs, adjoining the Wear's Fort site on the town's north side. It was normal throughout this period for the occupants of vast urban ranges to visit mountain springs, the waters of which were thought to have wellbeing restoring qualities.
The business blast
In the early twentieth century, Pigeon Forge was a segregated mountain villa with no significant ways. The closest railroad station was in Sevierville. Scaffolds were likewise extraordinary, the main real water intersections being a series of portages along the Little Pigeon.
At the point when the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was opened in 1934, the Tennessee Valley Authority reported that there were no tourism-situated organizations in Pigeon Forge. By the 1950s, upgrades to US-441 prompted the station of a couple of campgrounds and cabins, however little that might produce real income. Throughout this period, then again, two variables in adjacent Gatlinburg might prompt the business blast Pigeon Forge might encounter in the last 50% of the twentieth century. Initially, Gatlinburg, itself encompassed by high mountain edges, had constrained area assets. Second, the area assets it did have were to a great extent controlled by a couple of neighborhood families who defeated endeavors by outside organizations to exploit the town's prime area. Subsequently, outside business visionaries were compelled to look somewhere else. Pigeon Forge, being only north of Gatlinburg along US-441, was the evident target.
In 1961, soon after Pigeon Forge formally joined, North Carolina siblings Grover and Harry Robbins opened Rebel Railroad in the town's Middle Creek region. The railroad reproduced a ride on a C...
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...conceived in adjacent Sevierville) with a proposal for an organization in the advancement and operation of Silver Dollar City. After long transactions, Parton turned into a minority accomplice in the endeavor, and Silver Dollar City was renamed Dollywood to commence a real showcasing crusade. The move demonstrated effective as Dollywood proceeded venture into the 21st century. Enchantment World collapsed in 1994.
While the business blast in Pigeon Forge incomprehensibly expanded the town's income, it had a few undesirable impacts. As area quality soar, numerous agriculturists could no more manage the cost of the going hand in hand with high property assessments and were compelled to offer their territory. The high typical cost for basic items in Pigeon Forge is troublesome to counterbalance with the low wage employments that regularly go with the traveler business.
Farmers began to cultivate vast areas of needed crops such as wheat, cotton, and even corn. Document D shows a picture of The Wheat Harvest in 1880, with men on earlier tractors and over 20-30 horses pulling the tractor along the long and wide fields of wheat. As farmers started to accumilate their goods, they needed to be able to transfer the goods across states, maybe from Illinios to Kansas, or Cheyenne to Ohmaha. Some farmers chose to use cattle trails to transport their goods. Document B demonstrates a good mapping of the major railroads in 1870 and 1890. Although cattle trails weren't used in 1890, this document shows the existent of several cattle trails leading into Chyenne, San Antonio, Kansas City and other towns nearby the named ones in 1870. So, farmers began to transport their goods by railroads, which were publically used in Germany by 1550 and migrated to the United States with the help of Colonel John Stevens in 1826. In 1890, railroads expanded not only from California, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada, but up along to Washington, Montana, Michigan, down to New Mexico and Arizona as well. Eastern States such as New Jersey, Tennesse, Virginia and many others were filled with existing railroads prior to 1870, as Colonel John Stevens started out his railroad revolutionzing movement in New Jersey in 1815.
Ambrose, Stephen. Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Print.
Miller and Lux, based out of San Francisco, was ranked in the largest industrial enterprises in 1900. Miller and Lux had an immense number of cattle spread over 1.25 million acres in several states. Miller and Lux controlled the Pacific Coast and intermountain meat markets. The company made more than 5 million in annual sales in 1913. Igler explains that in order for Miller and Lux to make more than over 5 million in sales, they had control over both land and water rights. Miller and Lux used that power over land and water to change the environment so the company can make profit. Igler sates, “industrial enterprise in the Far West thrived by engineering natural landscapes and mobilizing large labor forces.” (p. 7) Like many other large industries, Miller and Lux relied on capital to undertake both vertical integration and to dominate the market. They also gave jobs to...
In the 1800’s into the early 1900’s a man named John Muir began to explore the western American lands. He traveled down South and up North. But, when he reached Yosemite Valley, his life changed. As said in John Muir’s Wild America, written by Tom Melham, “Following the forest-lined mountain trails, Muir climbed higher into the Sierra Nevada: suddenly, a deep valley enclosed by colossal steeps and mighty water falls yawned before him. Spell bound, he entered Yosemite Valley” (79). Muir’s travels and adventures, highlighted in Melham’s book, explain this man’s love of the wilderness. Yosemite Valley was like a wide, open home to Muir, who, lived alone and discovered new landings and important later landmarks that create the aura of Yosemite National Park. Yosemite Valley was given to the state of California in 1864, part of the continuous idea of Manifest Destiny, later, in 1890; Yosemite became one of the first National Parks (“World Book”). Uniquely, the longer Muir stayed the more that he...
Ophem, Marieke Van. "The Iron Horse: the impact of the railroads on 19th century American society."
Nestled in the Smoky Mountains, Gatlinburg has become an area that East Tennessee State University students go to visit. Gatlinburg offers something for many; however, the city has some growing pains such as traffic and limited space. Thus, the city of Gatlinburg offers many things that a traveler could need and want, provided that he or she is willing to overlook the city’s rapid growth.
Most of early American colonies struggled to make a significant profit. It was not until John Rolfe perfected his recipe for tobacco in 1612 colonies began to seriously grow a single crop. It was then that Virginia became a plantation colony. It revolutionized colonies leading to the importation of slaves. This tobacco revolution lead to numerous advertisement campaigns. The advertisement presented is modification of what actually happened; the historical evidence in the chapter presents a different story. For instance, African American lives were influenced by tobacco, the idea of life being “a smoke,” and the increase of wealth of white people are shown in the image but are partially true.
By 1857 a concord coach was able to complete the fifty-mile run from Portland to Salem in a single day (Schwantes, 183). California Stage Company was one of the largest organizations of its kind in the United States, established direct and regular service between Portland and Sacramento in 1860 (Schwantes, 183). Wells, Fargo and Company of San Francisco utilized a far-flung network of stagecoach and freight lines in the 1860s and 1870s to serve mining regions in the interior Northwest (Schwantes, 183). Ben Holladay, the stagecoach king, laid the foundation for his transportation empire in 1862 when he gained control of stagecoach and freight wagon lines that extended from Salt Lake City to the booming mining camps and supply center of Boise City, Walla Walla, and Virginia City, Montana. Holladay sold h...
Egan notes, “No group of people took a more dramatic leap in lifestyle or prosperity, in such a short time, than wheat farmers on the Great Plains” (Egan 42). The revenue from selling wheat far exceeded the cost of producing the wheat, so the large profit attracted people to produce more and more wheat. On top of the high profit from wheat, the Great War caused the price of wheat to rise even more. The supply of wheat rose with the price, but Egan points to information to demonstrate that the rapid increase in production can lead to overproduction, which is damaging to the land. Also, the invention of the tractor also lead to overproduction of the land by creating the ability to dramatically cut the time it took to harvest acres. When the prices for wheat began to fall due to overproduction, this caused the farmers to produce even more output to be able to make the same earnings as when the prices were higher. The government also played a part in promoting the overproduction of the land. The Federal Bureau of Soils claimed that, “The soil is the one indestructible, immutable asset that the nation possessed. It is the one resource that cannot be exhausted, that cannot be used up” (Egan 51). Egan points to factors such as a high profit margin, the Great War, tractors, increased outputs when wheat prices fell, and governmental claims that caused the people to overproduce the land of the Great Plains. Egan then gives examples of how the overproduction destroyed the land. Egan explains that the farmers saw their only way out was to plant more wheat. This overproduction tore up the grass of the Great Plains, thus making the land more susceptible to the severe dust storms of the Dust
The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American Politics. The country was finally free of the threat of war, and many of its citizens were living comfortably. However, as these two decades went by, the American farmer found it harder and harder to live comfortably. Crops such as cotton and wheat, once the sustenance of the agriculture industry, were selling at prices so low that it was nearly impossible for farmers to make a profit off them. Furthermore, improvement in transportation allowed foreign competition to materialize, making it harder for American farmers to dispose of surplus crop. Mother Nature was also showing no mercy with grasshoppers, floods, and major droughts that led to a downward spiral of business that devastated many of the nation’s farmers. As a result of the agricultural depression, numerous farms groups, most notably the Populist Party, arose to fight what the farmers saw as the reasons for the decline in agriculture. During the final twenty years of the nineteenth century, many farmers in the United States saw monopolies and trusts, railroads, and money shortages and the loss in value of silver as threats to their way of life, all of which could be recognized as valid complaints.
Spearman, Frank H. "The First Transcontinental Railroad." Harper's Monthly Magazine, Volume 109 2011: 711-20. Web. 29 Sept. 2013. .
There is no refuting that the railroad companies transformed business operations and encouraged industrial expansion. The raw materials required for construction of the transcontinental railroad directly resulted in the expansion of the steel, lumber and stone industries. (Gillon p.652) The railroad stimulated growth in manufacturing and agriculture providing an efficient manner to ship raw materials and products throughout the country. Which in turn, increased consumerism and introduced t...
O’Quinlivan, Michael. Rocky Mount North Carolina Centennial Commemorative Book: “A Century of People, Purpose, and Progress .”
North of Yellowstone National Park, roughly 5 miles southeast of Bozeman, Montana, lies a spectacular housing development, Eagle Rock Reserve. It is situated in an area with a rich history that includes William Clark’s July 1806 venture into the Gallatin Valley, Bozeman, called “Valley of the Flowers” by various Native American tribes, including the Blackfeet and Crow Indians. Gold Rush history witnessed the creation of the Bozeman Trail in 1863, by John Bozeman and his associate John Jacobs, Bozeman Trail, connecting the gold rush territory of Montana to the Oregon Trail. This trail was notoriously dangerous, and so, in 1864, Jim Bridger blazed a safer, alternative trail that went west of the Big Horn Mountains and passed through Bridger,
With over two hundred miles of trails to travel, it is easy to see the tranquility of this distinguished place, and why so many noble men gave their lives protecting it. From tents to pull-through, private or public, and campgrounds there are plenty of options and places for you to park your camper or pitch your tent. Only five miles from the national park, Jackson Hole offers several nice hotels. Grand Teton National Park can be enjoyed by everyone with its forty-two mile scenic loop drive. If you do not want to drive, you can sign up for a scenic float trip that takes you straight through the heart of this magnificent mountain range on the Snake River. Another option you have to viewing the serenity of this place is through a scenic cruise on Jenny Lake. On this cruise you would spend approximately 1 hour learning about the history and geolo...