Jadon Gibson

3 weeks ago | themountaineagle.com | Jadon Gibson

The controversial politician William G. Brownlow led Tennessee’s successful re-admission into the Union. It was the first state of the Confederacy to do so. The rough and ready period of American politics — war words, mud, fists and even bullets flew. The most contentious battles were over the course of American democracy and the question of slavery and its expansion. […]

1 month ago | themountaineagle.com | Jadon Gibson

Ninety years ago today — on May 21, 1935 — First lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, toured the Hanna Coal Company mine at Willow Grove, Ohio. She was provided with a miner’s hard hat and a gray coat for the two-mile round trip through what was considered a model mine, “one of the safest in […]

2 months ago | themountaineagle.com | Jadon Gibson

A joint effort by Robert Fulton, Robert R. Livingston and Nicholas Roosevelt led to the first steamboat to navigate up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in 1811. Fulton is noted for inventing the Clermont, the first commercially successful steamboat. Robert R. Livingston, the minister to France during President Thomas Jefferson’s administration, was instrumental […]

Feb 26, 2025 | themountaineagle.com | Jadon Gibson

Cherokee warriors assisted in the successful assault of Fort Duquesne but were attacked in what would later become Tennessee. About 15 were killed and others taken prisoner. The Cherokees retaliated by putting a blockade around Fort Loudon. Col. Byrd had to raise troops to aid those surrounded by Indians. He took it upon himself to have them build blockhouses and […]

Feb 19, 2025 | themountaineagle.com | Jadon Gibson

An interesting story surfaced in 1865 about a youthful Jesse James. A governess charged with teaching and training five children in a rural Logan County, Kentucky home in the mid to late 1860’s wrote that Jesse James, nephew of her employer, also lived in the home for a time. “Jesse was about 21 years old then,” Jenny wrote in 1885, […]