This word has been used for centuries, although in strikingly different contexts. The most likely origin is the French term “Mélange,” which simply means “mixture.
Tag: historic
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Abingdon’s Dry Killers- Appalachian True Crime
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The Appalachian Druid Church
The term “Druid Church” is an archaic phrase used during the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. It referred to a common event in Appalachian areas.
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Chasing the Mysterious Clay-Eaters
There was a strange community in Nineteenth Century North Carolina, according to legend, who subsisted entirely on clay. The addiction was unlike any known vice, even worse than whiskey, morphine, or laudanum.
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The Ghost of Marble Hall
There is a site off Highway 11-W, just a few miles outside of Rogersville, Tennessee, that has been virtually forgotten. The obscurity, however, does not diminish its history or the events that took place there.
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The Rotherwood Bridge
The Rotherwood Bridge has seen several incarnations, but one fact is true of them all: every crossing sees more action than perhaps any other bridge in the region.
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The Rotherwood Elm
An old elm once stood near the location of the original Rotherwood house. The tree was legendary until its death in the 1940s.
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Rotherwood after the Phipps
Rotherwood ownership is sketchy for a time. There was one mention in 1902, when newspapers reported Henry Feagins died at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.
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Rotherwood’s Infamous Folklore
[This “folklore” has been gathered from many sources across the internet over a number of years.] The Rotherwood Mansion, located beside the Netherland Inn Road, is believed to be home to many spirits.
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Abijah Alley- The Appalachian Nostradamus
Abijah Alley, of Eighteenth Century Scott County, is one of the most difficult individuals to locate information on. Alley left a fantastic legacy that was still discussed in the late Nineteenth Century, even in the pages of the New York Times.