A drive through Lafollette TN and me running my mouth!

[@shadwarner9748]

I'm out here now and I'm having the best time of life. 500 miles of trails and I've only seen 75.

[@patrickian8843]

It took me a couple of seconds to realize where you were in Lafollette. I live about 4 miles from there (Jacksboro).

[@the1442]

Also, I just saw in the news that a dog shelter is flooded and asking for help to house the pups … please anyone near there help if you can! Ty!

[@finalflowerchild]

Don't blink, you'll miss it.

[@MeasuringMoments]

So I have to ask...was the deserted trailer park on Del Rio Lane? We were just in town today checking out properties and went through there.

[@the1442]

Thank you so much. My mother and stepfather lived there and mom passed away there, so it’s where she rests. I’m trying to figure out if the floods this week have affected it? Anybody know?

[@rogerbaird7041]

Went to school there. Have not been home in 20 some years. I'm in Toledo now but I do miss home on big 4 road

[@colinnorman3170]

I live just south of there.

[@theappalachianamerican8607]

Awesome area!

[@theappalachianamerican8607]

Awesome area!

[@Calliefink]

Same

[@Calliefink]

Thats funny I'm at the hospital in lafollete

[@betbet1503]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Atticus6557]

Lafollette city politicians will not fix their own roads; especially West Beech street. It's awful driving on these back roads around town.

[@finalflowerchild]

Beech sounds so familiar is it close to Tennessee st.? My parents were from there. I'm related to the Profits, Heatherlys, my family name is Hicks.

[@cheriarmstrong5256]

My hubby and I have found some beautiful property that we’d like to purchase. He just retired. The property is 8 miles north of downtown. Would that be considered a good area? It’s such a big decision. Thanks

[@theappalachianamerican8607]

Yes it's a good area!Lots of retired people in the area. We are about 3 miles outside of town.

[@finalflowerchild]

Thank you for posting this. My parents grew up in La Follette. They left and came to Dayton, Ohio to find work. As a child my family went back every memorial day and we also went for vacations. How different it is now then when I was a child there in the 1960. We went where we pleased no crime worries.

[@Coffee240]

Buy a gun. Crime is going up. Drug's bust all the time. Druggie people break in homes. Other than that it's nice. They had the normal shutting down the high school kids bring guns to school and bomb threats. Times has changed . Like everywhere else.

[@finalflowerchild]

To think my parents left LA Follette to come to Dayton to work. Have you heard, the crime rates worse in Dayton than Chicago.

[@finalflowerchild]

@@Coffee240 I was there about 20yrs. Ago. I could see in my minds eye, what the TVA housing looked like in cinder block. People just started playing baseball on the front lawn long before the TVA actually made it one. I couldn't believe that the building for the little.store on the hill was still there. The joy of those memories made me cry. The small town I grew up in doesn't exist anymore either. Sure their are remnants here and there, but both towns still exist in my mind.

[@Raizo950]

Wouldn't be so bad if we didn't get so many yanks here during the good weather.....

[@phillipmoore8100]

Seeing this makes me homesick to move back. I was born and raised there, but moved to Ga. due to work. Both sides of my family were the first settlers in the area.

[@finalflowerchild]

Your family had to know the Hicks family.

[@wendellwatson5998]

@@finalflowerchild I knew a guy who was call Jacksboro Hicks. in 50and 60ee

[@claymeredith8858]

Our antique stores right there

[@voodookitchenmama]

Nice drive. You ain't lost as long as there's gas in the tank!

[@theappalachianamerican8607]

Lol. That's right!

[@adamjones5795]

Lived here all my life.

[@WhiteDragon13]

Buffalo,N.y...... Right now I live in Kokomo,In. And I will be moving to Lafollette,Tn. very soon

[@theappalachianamerican8607]

Awesome

[@frogjlray]

From Jacksboro, now in Peru , IN and moving back home

[@bhfj4206]

I grew up there my whole life. There is nothing there unless you are a doctor lawyer teacher or a drug dealer

[@theappalachianamerican8607]

I was shocked at how poor the town was!

[@bhfj4206]

@The Appalachian American it died in the late 90s early 2000

[@toddcleveland3068]

I used to live in Lafollette

[@hampshirecountryroads8144]

Peoples driving in Nashville area was worse then Illinois! So rude

[@lorenisthebestfr]

My PayPal lives near there his house has a wood fence and a pool and a truck and like a thing the park under the shade

[@rockytop4]

What a hell hole cops beat a man walking to store 😂

[@peggyfultz1563]

This where I live

[@theappalachianamerican8607]

I love campbell county!

[@theappalachianamerican8607]

I love campbell county

[@copperheadranch976]

Just a bit east of me

[@jonathanlynn843]

I grew up here

[@janicelyke3381]

I was born an raised there ❤❤

[@carsonbruce1874]

Bro same

[@micahorwhatever8063]

I’m from here

[@ashleygibson7692]

I live in there

[@jonathanlynn843]

I grew up there

[@energy4136]

Same

[@adamjones5795]

Haha. I live there also, I live in the mountains.

[@Coffee240]

I worked in the old five and dime Powell drug store in 1969. The old hotel was on the corner smelled like old cigars all the time. See the old furniture store building is still there by the river. Went the Church of God on Cumberland Ave.

[@finalflowerchild]

I loved the 5 and dime. We walked down town from the TVA apartments. I had so much fun there.

[@Coffee240]

@@finalflowerchild the best hamburger and shakes in the world. Did you eat there at the counter to. One day people was standing in line to get a shake. Ran out of everything that day .

[@finalflowerchild]

@@Coffee240 You know I can't remember eating there, but I do remember eating at a nice restaurant in town, you know white table clothes and such. We also got take out from a burger place on the side of the road. They only had 1 grocery in the whole town. My parents always bought a brand of food we didn't have up here. It was letters like JMK brand. My parents met at a skating rink across the street from the TVA housing development. Do you know where I mean?

[@Coffee240]

@@finalflowerchild that was down from the pool hall. That little restaurant was across the street from the pool hall. All our blood land up the valley is sold out. No more tobacco fields my great grand parents tend to. They was the Thomas family. Things has sure changed fast there. Went home five years ago . To put flowers on the Graves. So many changes. All the old homes are still in LA Follette the old projects. That store you remember isn't there just the building now.

[@finalflowerchild]

@@Coffee240 There was a great playground up the hill in the project. I loved walking up the hill to that little store. At one time there was a grocery store across the street from the front of the TVA housing. My cousins last name was Profit. I am related to the Heatherly family by marriage. My grandparents lived toward the end of Demory rd. Their last name was Hicks. I had such great times at Shanghai Dock. Putting coins in the jukebox and having snacks and a soda. God Bless.

[@celinamoore4909]

We're thinking about getting a place here. If they have a WalMarts, Dollar Tree, and a Dollar General, and some place I can get yarn I will be happy..Oh and good internet..

[@theappalachianamerican8607]

They have all!

[@aestheticdegen]

Also have a lot of meth heads, crime, and depression

[@trytotakeit3916]

@@aestheticdegen well not depression, few meth head, lots of pill heads

[@aestheticdegen]

@@trytotakeit3916 depression in the sense that the town is depressing

[@trytotakeit3916]

@@aestheticdegen why you say it’s depressing?

[@lulamatchell3841]

I live there lol

[@user-otzlixr]

Just don’t let your wife or daughter drive alone. That town hires sexual predators for cops.