Saturday, October 8, 2011
Cheri Oct-7-11
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We were ready to go by 10am this morning. Our destination was The Great Smokies Flea Market. This is listed in the “Top 10” Flea Markets in the USA! They have 1000 rotating indoor/outdoor vendors. It is 15 miles north of Pigeon Forge.
We wandered through all the vendors. Gay bought a remote control helicopter. It’s a small one he can fly in the 5th wheel. He should have fun with it as long as he doesn’t have it follow me around!
We took some back roads as we left the flea market and checked out the Douglas Dam just off of Rte 139. We got some nice pictures there around Douglas Lake. The Lake is very low on water and you can see this from the pictures. I would guess it is down about 20 to 25 feet.
We stopped further up the road in the little town of Dandridge. Historic Dandridge bears the distinction of being the only town in the U.S. named after Martha Dandridge Washington, wife of our first president, George Washington and is the second oldest town in Tennessee.
The town was settled in 1783. You can take a walking tour and enjoy its century old homes, inns and taverns. Many of them are privately owned, so we could not tour them. We just checked them out from afar.
We walked through the Revolutionary War graveyard there. We checked out the gravestones marking the final resting places of many Revolutionary War casualties.
We also checked out a few shops in the area before heading out of town.
We continued through the countryside to Chestnut Hill, the home of Bush Baked Beans. When we entered the Visitors Center we were escorted to the movie theater where we learned about Bush Brothers & Company’s 100 year old canning history and how Bush became the NUMBER ONE name in beans. They do not take people through the factory on tours but do show people a movie on the process the beans go through to be canned. It was all quite interesting.
We went through the museum of exhibits about the Bush’s story and then had our picture taken with Duke, the dog. He didn’t give us any of the secret receipts! We checked out their Old-fashioned General Store. It was neat.
They also have a café there, but it was only opened until 4pm and we were too late to take advantage of it.
We finally got back home about 5:30pm. It was a wonderful, full day. We did 76 miles.
Gay has uploaded pictures of the day click on this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Dandridge and Bush Beans
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