8th Post "THE PAST IS MYSELF"

Top Photograph Panorma of Family Farm

2nd Photograph: Edgewood Methodist Church, the present view

Third Photograph: A view of the Edgewood Comunity from Wilson Hollow Road

Bottom Photograph: A copy of Mapquests view and my marking of the neighborhood

SOME INSIGHT

For those of you receiving these “bio E-mails” I wish to make an explanation to you. The story of Atwater Kent, WSM and Ex-Lax referred to three tributaries contributing their waters to Yellow Creek and I only photographed two. The third tributary is Dry Creek which only has water when heavy rains are present. Usually in a dry season it is totally dry with no water.

Also, some of you wanted to know just exactly where these stories took place. On the Internet if you bring up or Goggle “Mapquest” and enter the intersections of “State Route 46 and Maysville Road, City of Dickson, State of Tennessee, zip 37055 you will come up right slap dab in the middle of all that you have been reading about. Also if you use the same information and insert intersections of Highway 70 and State Route 46 you should be directed into the town of Dickson.

Dickson is West of Nashville on I40 or National Highway 70, approximately 45 to 50 miles; State Route 46 traverses North from Dickson and links up with State Route 49 near the terminus of Yellow Creek as a tributary to the Cumberland River. The family lived exactly twelve miles North of Dickson, Tennessee.

Attached to this E-Mail are two items, a Mapquest Map with information drawn and a picture of my father’s farm which was situated on both sides of State Route 46, South of Hunt Branch. His farm was purchased from the Cripple Grandmother, however, his farm has gone the way of the rest of the land granted to Veteran of the War of 1812. The land previously owned by family members is no longer owned by any family member.
As the Gatlin Brothers told the story in one of their Country Songs, “All the Gold in California, is in a bank in Beverly Hills in somebody else’s name”!

The Top photograph is a series of "Polaroid" snap shots taped together in a panoramic scene to give a perspective of the "lay of the land" in the yellow Creek Valley. I found them in a box of old photos. They were taken in 1996 prior to my father's death and they are terrible photographs, however you have to use what you have and this is all I have to send you. In the photograph, the trees and hills in the background are overlooking Yellow Creek. The tractor in the photograph, which is almost “not discernable“, is a four hundred horsepower, four wheel drive monster. This should give perspective to size of the surrounding area.

Hopefully, this will give you some “insight” to the area of which I am writing. No, it is not a town, it was “in the country” and I went into town about once every month or two; town was 12 miles away.

Thanks for asking about the area......Robert (Dixie)