Appalachian Place Names 2 Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

This one is true. Tiger is a small community near Tallulah Gorge in N.E. Georgia.

Answer: True

This one is also true. Popcorn is the name of a series of small peaks that "pop" up out of several larger ones, thus giving them their name. Located in Rabun Co., Georgia, they are visible from the scenic overlook on Old Hwy 76.

Answer: False

This one is false. No such place exists, to my knowledge.

Answer: True

Devil's Den is a small hollow between several mountains located in Fannin Co., Georgia. The road leading in ends mysteriously at the back of the valley, turning to a dirt path leading into some very spooky, thick forest.

Answer: False

Although it is a real town, Sandwich is located in Massachusetts.

Answer: True

Burra Burra was the name given to the large copper mine which operated in Polk Co., Tennessee at one time. It is now a federal historic landmark.

Answer: True

This one is also true. Mineral Bluff is a small town in Fannin Co., Georgia. It got its name from the rich deposits of rocks and minerals which have been unearthed here. Most abundant are "Fairy Crosses", cross shaped gemstones!

Answer: False

Vidalia, Georgia, home of the ultra delicious vidalia onion, is located in the S.E. part of the state, and not in the Appalachian Mountains.

Answer: False

This one is false as well. Opp is a town in Alabama, near Mobile.

Answer: True

Located in extreme Northern South Carolina, Table Rock, and its neighbor Pennacle, exist. Legend says a giant native american sat upon Pennacle and used Table Rock for his table. Thus the name.

Answer: True

This one, again, is true. Located along the Appalachian Trail, At 6,634 ft. Clingman's Dome is the highest point in Tennessee, although it actually sits on the state line ridge between TN and NC. It is the second highest point east of the Mississippi. Only North Carolina's Mt. Mitchell (6,684 feet) rises higher.

Answer: False

Um, the toe is a body part, not a place. Perhaps you thought this was an anatomy quiz.

Answer: True

True. Looking Glass Rock is a huge bulge of granite rising from the valley floor in "The Cradle of Forestry", near Asheville, North Carolina. The technical name for this geological marvel is a "Pluton". Plutons are masses of granite and quartz formed eons ago when lava bubbled up and broke through the surface of the ground, cooling in a large hump.

The native Cherokee of this area considered Looking Glass sacred. Other intriguing features of Looking Glass are Short Man's Sorrow and Bloody Crack, natural features that are a bane to rock climbers.

Answer: True

The Lost Sea is the name of a cave located off of Hwy. 68 near Sweetwater, Tennessee. This cave is another historic landmark, and is famous for the massive lake that fills its lowest chamber. Though the demensions of the surface of the lake have been measured, what lies beneath remains a mystery.

The full extent of the Lost Sea is still not known despite the efforts of teams of divers armed with modern exploration equipment. The visible portion of the lake is 800 ft. long by 220 ft. wide. Beneath the waters of the four-and-a-half acre lake divers have discovered an even larger series of rooms completely filled with water.

More than 13 acres of water have been mapped so far, yet still no end to the lake has been found. One diver ventured into the water-filled rooms with a sonar device.

He took soundings in all directions and found nothing but more water.

Answer: False

If I ever buy that track of land I've been dreaming about, maybe I'll name it this. For now though, Frog Hollow doesn't exist.

Answer: False

Yeah, you know, where the Soggy Bottom Boys came from in the movie "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?". Sorry, False.

Answer: True

Maggie Valley, North Carolina is a small tourist community near Cherokee. It is best known for the skiing resort located there and the amusement park located atop a mountain above the town. It is called "Ghost Town".

Answer: True

Helen, Georgia is a quaint little village, styled after old world Germany, located in White Co., Georgia. It is situated on the banks of the Chattahoochee River. Here the river looks more like a mountain stream. Further on, as it flows past Atlanta, it is nearly 100 yds. wide!

Answer: True

Jack's River flows through both Whitfield and Fannin Co., in North Georgia. Located in the Cohutta Wildlife Reserve, it is a favorite spot for trout fishermen.

Answer: False

Twiggs is a county in southeast Georgia.

Answer: True

Located near Knoxville, Tennessee, Oak Ridge is the home of the National Atomic Sciences Laboratory. This town was built in the 1940's with one intention: to house the families of the men who were struggling to make the uranium for the first atomic bomb. Three plants were built here to acomplish this purpose; Y12, X10, and K25. Y12 inevidibly produced enough enriched uranium for both the Heroshima bomb,code-named "Little Boy", and for the second bomb, "Fat Man", as well. All three plants, plus the National Lab are still standing here today.

The American Museum of Science and Energy is located here as well. In it they have an actual demilitarized Air Force tactical nuclear warhead. You can even touch it. Pretty cool, huh?

Answer: False

This one is fiction.

Answer: True

Thunder Rock is the name given to a section of the Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee. There is a campground there also.

Answer: True

Blue Hole is the name given by locals to a large, deep swimming hole located along the Ocoee River in Tennessee. It gets its name from the color it turns when the TVA opens the dams along the river, raising the water table. Even in the summer the water here is frigid!

Answer: True

Whitepath is perhaps the most interesting place in Gilmer Co., Georgia. The story behind this place, as I understand it, is as follows. Chief Whitepath was a prominent leader in the Cherokee Nation and he and his band of Native Americans lived in the vecinity of modern day Whitepath.

When Federal troops came to relocate he and his people, via the Trail of Tears, to Oklahoma, Whitepath laid a curse on this area that wouldn't wait! Sure enough, years later a man bought this property and built a large hotel on it, in the early 1900's.

Not long after it was built strange things began happening. This all culminated when the hotel actually burned to the ground, and the man killed his wife and then himself. All that remains of the original hotel is the entrance gates, off of Boardtown Rd., in Gilmer Co. Perhaps there was more to Whitepath's parting words than people wanted to believe!