I'm much interested in old homesites, logging railroad grades and abandoned cemeteries. It is my pleasure to follow an old grownup road bed to look for chimney piles. I have explored the GSMNP and read much about early settlers. Old topo maps, before the park shows little dark squares representing homes still standing at that time. Researching a possible homesite and then finding a partial standing rock chimney is the best. Since I can't visit the mountains as much as I would like I started to look into history around Lancaster. Our History in the Lancaster area is rich. So many exceptional people were associated with the Lancaster area. In the future I hope to explore locations with the last remaining traces of a time gone by.

I'm much interested in old homesites, logging railroad grades and abandoned cemeteries. It is my pleasure to follow an old grownup road bed to look for chimney piles. I have explored the GSMNP and read much about early settlers. Old topo maps, before the park shows little dark squares representing homes still standing at that time. Researching a possible homesite and then finding a partial standing rock chimney is the best. Since I can't visit the mountains as much as I would like I started to look into history around Lancaster. Our History in the Lancaster area is rich. So many exceptional people were associated with the Lancaster area. In the future I hope to explore locations with the last remaining traces of a time gone by.