Gheen – I want to say it was ’41 or ’42 that the dam was finished and they shut the gates. Paul – What year would that have been? Mid ‘30s? There was the old town, but half of it had to move when the lake rose and took over the town on this side of the railroad tracks. Paul – Now was this area considered Concord back in those days? My daddy bought a house from his uncle, Uncle Jimmy Craig, and my granddaddy owned all around it. I’ve got what my daddy owned on this side of the road, I sold the other side. My Granddaddy owned from the edge of that subdivision all the way over the hill to the top of the next hill on this side and all back in here, it must have been about 250 acres. Paul – So you grew up on your parent’s farm? I remember that old ferry and rode on it when I was a little boy.

I think his name was John Wakefield, he owned the property going down to the ferry, and that was considered Lowe’s Ferry. Gheen – Lowes Ferry? Above where you used to live, coming across that little neck of water, coming toward Rocky Hill, they are building houses there now. Paul – And before that it was Lowes Ferry, correct? Paul – What was it called when you were growing up? Paul – You’ve seen a lot of changes in Knoxville, particularly around here haven’t you? James Gheen has lived on a 24-acre farm on Westland Drive all his life. Interviewed by Paul James, Knoxville History Project on Monday February 11, 2019.Ĭontents: Westland Drive, Lowe’s Ferry, Concord, Gettysvue, Ebenezer, Nubbin Ridge Road, Wheat Shocking, Emory Church Road Swimming Hole, Westland Drive Iron Works, Bearden/Lucien Green Shooting Old Grace Church, Rocky Hill, Wright’s Ferry James Gheen, Life-long Westland Drive Resident

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