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Curios: Disappearing Lakes of the Southern Appalachians

Trout Pond, Mountain Lake & Lost Sea: the three natural lakes of the region are endangered.

Curios: WWII Storage Bunkers at a Nature Preserve?

The Chattanooga preserve offers an odd combination of great birding and wildlife watching with 100 tree-topped concrete bunkers.

Curios: Strange Arrows Upon the Land – 70 Feet of Bleached Concrete

The determination of what they are involves a combination of modern-day satellite technology and the delivery of snail mail.

Curios: Spirits, Survivors and Songs – Where a Haunted Mansion and Rock ’n’ Roll Collide

The links, echoes and mysteries tying an old Virginia mountain mansion to a seminal Southern rock band are too rich to ignore.

Curios: White Post in the Middle of the Road – George Washington Put it There First

The tiny Virginia village of White Post has a historic claim to fame, that people keep knocking over.

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West Virginia’s Trout Pond, in Hardy County, was full in 2003 when the shot below was taken. Leakage out of what was until recently a blocked limestone sinkhole has reduced the pond to its current level, as seen above.

Curios: Disappearing Lakes of the Southern Appalachians

Trout Pond, Mountain Lake & Lost Sea: the three natural lakes of the region are endangered.
Trees have grown over many of the 1940s-era concrete bunkers at what is now Enterprise South Nature Park, near Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Curios: WWII Storage Bunkers at a Nature Preserve?

The Chattanooga preserve offers an odd combination of great birding and wildlife watching with 100 tree-topped concrete bunkers.
This postal arrow, one of the few still preserved in the Southern Appalachians, is in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, and directed airplanes on the Atlanta-New York Airway.

Curios: Strange Arrows Upon the Land – 70 Feet of Bleached Concrete

The determination of what they are involves a combination of modern-day satellite technology and the delivery of snail mail.
The Major Graham Mansion, in Wythe County, Virginia, had its first glory days in the 1840s, soon after its construction; it took a strange brand of fandom for a rock band to bring about its brief and musical renaissance in the 2000s.

Curios: Spirits, Survivors and Songs – Where a Haunted Mansion and Rock ’n’ Roll Collide

The links, echoes and mysteries tying an old Virginia mountain mansion to a seminal Southern rock band are too rich to ignore.
The white post of White Post, Virginia, has been standing, in various rebuilt and repaired iterations, since 1750.

Curios: White Post in the Middle of the Road – George Washington Put it There First

The tiny Virginia village of White Post has a historic claim to fame, that people keep knocking over.
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