Episode 3030.2 | Crossville Museums | Tennessee Crossroads
Rob Wilds visits two Crossville Museums: The Military Memorial Museum and the Cumberland Homestead House Museum. The first remembers the battle against human foes, the second the fight against poverty and hopelessness. Watch this and more episode segments of Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads.
Homestead Tower 2018
The Homestead Towers located near Crossville, Tn.
Cumberland Homesteads
A Video of the Cumberland Homesteads near Crossville Tennessee
Homestead Tower Museum & Homestead House Tour
One of the stops we made on our way to Nashville was this interesting and history fact filled of the Showplace for the New Deal of FDR - President Franklin D Roosevelt. This is for all the History fans out there. For more info on this interesting place, check out their website at
Cumberland Homesteads | Cumberland County | #DiscoverUC
The Great Depression was a very difficult time in our nation’s history, but in Crossville, Tennessee, help came in the form of a new community that brought jobs, affordable housing and restore hope at a time when hope was hard to find. The Cumberland Homesteads is one of a series of programs brought about by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help provide a hand up and give people a chance at restoration.
The great APPALACHIAN homesteading confrence crossville Tennessee may 2017
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Music- John Denver
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I found my home it Crossville Tn.
3 bedroom home for sale in Cumberland Homestead Subdivision Crossville TN
3 bedroom home for sale in Cumberland Homestead Subdivision Crossville TN
Victoria Carmack - First Realty : 116 S Lowe Cookeville TN 38501; 931-261-9752
3 bedroom home for sale in Cumberland Homestead Subdivision Crossville TN
This is a one of a kind home! Are you looking for a historic Crab Orchard Stone Homestead Home sitting on 20 acres all fenced and cross fenced? This property includes 2 barns, two ponds, 2 garden sheds & a workshop. The pasture is currently leased until October 2015. The home includes a country setting with views of two different mountains. The property has about 11 tillable acres that has been sown in beans, and also used as pasture land. The garden area also offers fruit trees, among mature trees inside the yard, all this creating one of the most serene country settings. This three bedrooms, and 1 bath home has most of the original hardware on the doors and windows. Even the sink in the laundry room may be the original sink. If you are looking for any crab Orchard stone home, and to own your very own piece of history contact us today. All of this and just minutes to town, makes it more desirable.
McDonald Mortgage Lender; VanDyk Mortgage; 57 Maple Grove Drive, Ste 202 Crossville TN 38555; 865 686 8711
3 bedroom home for sale in Cumberland Homestead Subdivision Crossville TN
Cumberland Homesteads- A Time I Will Never Forget
An original story set during the establishment of the Cumberland Homesteads
Cumberland Homesteads 10th Apple Festival
Cumberland Mountain State Park: A CCC Legacy
Tells the history of Cumberland Mountain State Park near Crossville, Tennessee and the Civilian Conservation Corps volunteers who created it. Narrated by Joanna Henning. Does your park, museum, historic site, school, academic study, or business need a film or presentation? Contact Nolpix Media today!
WTNZ Our Town • Cumberland County Playhouse • Cumberland County, Tennessee
n 1963, Crossville, Tennessee was a town you passed through on the way to other places. Located in Cumberland County, the town and surrounding Appalachian region was economically depressed. Resort and recreational development was in its infancy. High unemployment and poverty was normal.
In December of that year, Paul Crabtree's The Perils of Pinocchio was presented at the Crossville Junior High School with a cast, crew and orchestra of 200 youngsters. The performance electrified the community. to a community with no museums, college, university, live performance organizations, one movie theater and an hour-and-a-half drive to the nearest city, the idea was extremely compelling that Pinocchio might be the beginning of new educational horizons for their children.
Civic and cultural leaders asked Crabtree how they could keep things like Pinocchio happening in Crossville. He replied, Well, you'd have to build a theater. The old junior high auditorium isn't even safe. Remarkably, in a town of 5,000, in a county of 25,000, that's exactly what they did. The entire community got behind the idea of the Playhouse because people believed it could make a vital contribution to education and the local economy and help create some new jobs.
The Cumberland County Playhouse is now the only major non-profit professional performing arts resource in rural Tennessee, and one of the 10 largest professional theaters in rural America. It serves more than 145,000 visitors annually with two indoor and two outdoor states, young audience productions, a comprehensive dance program, a concert series and touring shows. The Cumberland County Playhouse is the only non-profit professional performing arts organization in Tennessee that wholly owns and operates its own major performance facility.
The Playhouse is committed to the arts as an indigenous, homegrown part of rural America - not a commodity imported from urban centers. The Playouse regularly produces new works based upon Tennessee and Southeastern history and culture, plus state and regional premieres and revivals of works with Appalachian themes. The Playhouse also strives to stretch its audiences with programming which includes major elements of opera, dance, and challenging dramatic works. The Playhouse features nearly 500 performances and 1600 classes in theatre, music and dance annually.
The Cumberland County Playhouse provides arts opportunities to a vast region underserved by other arts resources, including rural East and Middle Tennessee, North Georgia, Southern Kentucky, and Northern Alabama, as well as metropolitan Knoxville, Nashville and Chattanooga. In 1984, the Cumberland County Playhouse was the recipient of one of the Governor's Awards in the Arts for the state of Tennessee.
With an annual budget of over $1,800,000, the Playhouse is among Tennessee's most sufficient arts institutions. Since its opening in 1965, 78 - 85% of all revenues have been from earned income, including funding of the construction of the original facility. The Playhouse operates on a balanced budget and has no accumulated deficit. Construction of a 27,000 square foot expansion to the original facility has recently been completed, making the Playhouse a four-theater complex featuring proscenium, black box and outdoor arena spaces.
A Drive Through Grassy Cove
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Going on without your Homestead Partner
My partner Linda and I bought this piece of property on the creek 3 1/2 years ago.I'm 66 and she's 62. I got 24 stents in my heart and RA. Linda has several health problems too. It's been my lifelong dream to have a little homestead on a creek that runs into the Tennessee river and to live off the land and the river. I wanted also to do it in an off grid fashion. I was living off grid when we meet but Linda lived in a very nice large home with all modern conveiniences. Her kids thought I was a bum but truthfully i had just left a very successful business behind to follow my dream. I guess we were doomed from the start but we fell in love practically at first site. We were both at a country dance and I got up and sang a couple of songs and we've been together ever since. She has had several back surgeries and just wasn't able to do this hard work. I took all the fun out of it . Her pains got to be too much and I told her to go back home where she would be more comfortable.She begged me to go with her but I just can't stand the thoughts of living in town.I would be miserable and we would end up hating each other. It's so hard to part ways when you're still in love!! But sometimes the best thing is to let them go. In our case that's what we both had to do. Music- Sounds Like Fresh by Jeff Przech is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Four Found Dead in Car in Cumberland Co.
Authorities believe the four people found shot to death in a car in central Tennessee were deliberately targeted and not the victims of random violence.
Cumberland County Deputy District Attorney General Gary McKenzie said investigators are still working to identify the victims. He described them as young and said some may be juveniles. He also said at least one of the victims was female.
The bodies were discovered by a resident of the Renegade Mountain resort community who saw the parked car on his way to work at about 7 a.m. Thursday. The community is on 3,000 wooded acres, about 50 miles west of Knoxville.
McKenzie said investigators have developed leads they are pursuing. They do not believe the shooter was among the victims.
Photo by John Madewell, NewsChannel 9 - Cumberland County deputies guard the crime scene.
Campground Review of Cumberland Mountain State Park
It's time for another campground review! This time it's one in Tennessee that we've been to a couple of times; Cumberland Mountain State Park.
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Burnside Tourism - Rediscover Lake Cumberland.
Burnside Tourism - Rediscover Lake Cumberland.
A video by Tyler Whitaker with music by Pablo Anson
APIEL IV Presents: Stopping a Road Project through the Cumberland with Mary Mastin & Vicki Vaden
APIEL IV
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Session III, 2:00-3:00
Stopping a Road Project through the Cumberland Homestead
Mary Mastin, Vicki Vaden