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Lincoln Museum
12-12-2012, 05:18 PM
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Lincoln Museum
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This Tuesday I spent a very rainy day at the Lincoln Museum in Harrogate, Tennessee, on the campus of Lincoln Memorial University, which is very close to the Cumberland Gap, a very beautiful section of East TN. almost due north of Knoxville.

The Curator was very kind and we had a great chat. I was able to see close up one of the Volk Life Masks.

There is a B&B that dates to 1700's called the Mill in Cumberland Gap which is a great place to stay.

Highly recommended.
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12-12-2012, 10:03 PM
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Mark,

Sounds interesting!Next time that I am in Knoxville (in a couple of months) I will have to check it out.

Craig
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12-13-2012, 09:03 AM
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Mark: I love that museum and the whole Cumberland Gap area! The museum has roots with O.O. Howard-concerning a remark Lincoln made to him about the loyal people of that part of Tennessee. I have also stayed at that B & B+ in the Daniel Boone Room. Its on my all-time top five places to stay.

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12-13-2012, 10:48 AM
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Craig, its a little bit of a drive up I-75 then East on 25 (I think.) It takes an hour or so and beautiful scenery.

Bill, the curator told me that during the war, the area was decidedly pro-Union. When the college began in 1897 after the war, the area had become very much pro-Confederate and anything "Lincoln" was controversial. I didn't see any Confederate battle flags like I do around Nashville, though.

Funny, Bill, I stayed in that room, too. Its great!

There is a beautiful National Park there as well.
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12-13-2012, 10:53 AM
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That Daniel Boone Room is really interesting to get too, isn't it? Especially, if you have some luggage! The building was once the home of a Confederate officer. I didn't see any Confederate battle flags around there either. And speaking of those flags-I recently saw two of them on tall metal poles flying here in Michigan-I don't see that very often!

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