On our mountain there are a good many trees that nature bent. We are up high enough that we have a regular breeze in the summer and a bit of wind in the winter. There is a special project not too far from here celebrating some bent trees that nature did...
The self-proclaimed State of Franklin broke away from North Carolina and attempted an experiment at self-rule, in a dispute over land grants and sovereignty . In June 1784, the North Carolina state government agreed to cede three of its western counties to the...