Appalachian Geography
This Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) has the Appalachian region as spanning this many different states.
What is 13 states?
This city serves as the county seat for Cocke County.
What is Newport?
These were the two primary natural resources extracted from the region during industrialization.
What are coal and lumber?
This group was the dominant Indigenous people in the region before their forced removal.
What is the Cherokee?
During the Civil War, most of Cocke County held this political stance.
What is pro-union?
This is the total number of counties included in the ARC's definition of the Appalachian region.
What is 423?
These two major rivers flow through Cocke County and are vital to its geography.
What are the French Broad and the Pigeon Rivers?
This term describes how land and labor were often treated by outside companies (they used our region and we did not see the benefits).
What is exploitation?
These are often negative and reinforced by movies and TV shows to depict Appalachian people.
What are stereotypes?
This was the primary reason Cocke County did not align with the Confederacy.
What is a lack of reliance on slavery?
This is how the Appalachian Mountains rank in terms of age among North American mountain ranges.
What is one of the oldest?
Cocke County is located within this specific sub-range of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Great Smoky Mountains?
In the cycle of poverty, this geographic challenge limits infrastructure and investment.
What is isolation?
This is the common name for the illegal production of alcohol historically associated with the area.
What is moonshine?
Hurricane Helene made landfall as this category of storm before reaching the region.
What is Category 4?
The Appalachian Mountains stretch from New York to the top of this southern state.
What is Georgia?
This major interstate highway connects Cocke County to the rest of the world.
What is I-40?
This issue leads to high rates of chronic pain and despair within the cycle of challenges.
What is addiction?
This is the type of music our region is known for, heavily influenced by African and Scottish culture.
What is folk music (or bluegrass)?
Settled by German immigrants in the 1780s, this is the second-largest town in the county and one of the oldest communities in the entire state of Tennessee.
What is Parrottsville?
This river is located within the northern part of the Appalachian Region and was once vital for trade.
What is the Hudson River?
These two specific natural disasters were caused in the county by the terrain during Hurricane Helene.
What are flooding and landslides?
This is the specific link between physical isolation and lower educational attainment.
What is limited resources?
This is the country many early Appalachian settlers migrated from.
What is Scotland?
This specific community within Cocke County was once famously nicknamed the "Moonshine Capital of the World."
What is Cosby?