Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Depicting Historic Vardy, Tennessee

Depicting Historic Vardy, Tennessee George Brosi Appalachian Heritage, Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2004, p. 3 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2004.0028 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/434550/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:29 GMT from JHU Libraries THE PHOTOS FOR THIS ISSUE George Brosi The cover graphics for this issue of Appalachian Heritage are from the collection of AIyce and Drew B. Williams, former teachers at the Vardy Community School in Hancock County, Tennessee. Blackwater Creek forms a valley with Newman's Ridge on the South Side and Powell Mountain to the north. The valley is called the Vardy Community after Vardeman Collins, who settled in the valley in the 1700s. Presumably when he arrived a handful of families were already well established on Newman's Ridge—the people who have subsequently come to be called the Melungeons. Some claim to be "Portuguese," and others claim to be descendente of "The Lost Colony." Many are mysteriously dark-skinned yet with basically Caucasian features, often assumed to simply be a mix of Indian, Black and White races. Although less than fifty miles southeast of Cumberland Gap, Hancock County, whose seat is Sneedville in the Clinch Valley, is one of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Depicting Historic Vardy, Tennessee

Brosi, George.
Appalachian Review , Volume 32 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
Download PDF
2 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/university-of-north-carolina-press/depicting-historic-vardy-tennessee-tdDXqT2dWh

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Copyright
Copyright © Berea College
ISSN
2692-9244
eISSN
2692-9287

Abstract

George Brosi Appalachian Heritage, Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2004, p. 3 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2004.0028 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/434550/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:29 GMT from JHU Libraries THE PHOTOS FOR THIS ISSUE George Brosi The cover graphics for this issue of Appalachian Heritage are from the collection of AIyce and Drew B. Williams, former teachers at the Vardy Community School in Hancock County, Tennessee. Blackwater Creek forms a valley with Newman's Ridge on the South Side and Powell Mountain to the north. The valley is called the Vardy Community after Vardeman Collins, who settled in the valley in the 1700s. Presumably when he arrived a handful of families were already well established on Newman's Ridge—the people who have subsequently come to be called the Melungeons. Some claim to be "Portuguese," and others claim to be descendente of "The Lost Colony." Many are mysteriously dark-skinned yet with basically Caucasian features, often assumed to simply be a mix of Indian, Black and White races. Although less than fifty miles southeast of Cumberland Gap, Hancock County, whose seat is Sneedville in the Clinch Valley, is one of the

Journal

Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 2014

There are no references for this article.