Storytelling Capital

Our
Wandering Tales
will escort you to our town, around our
town and surrounding activities.
Other Regional Activities
When you stay with us your family can dig up bones
at the Natural History Museum and Fossil Site,
discover your adventure at the children’s Hands On!
Regional Museum, and check out the skies at Bays
Mountain Park and Planetarium. Or you can go natural
with a hike on the Appalachian Trail, white water
rafting, hunting, fishing, and boating. Golf the day
away at our award-winning courses and much more!
For over half a century, until the coming of the railroad in
1857, the Great Stage Road was the main artery of travel from
the cities of East to the
South and Southwest.
A stream of immigrants
from Virginia, Maryland
and Pennsylvania,
with others fresh
from overseas, urged
by stories of fertile
lands brought all
their possessions
in great Conestoga
wagons, often drawn
by teams of oxen.
For many years, this
was the route over
which virtually all
manufactured and
imported goods reached
the East Tennessee
market. Surrounding
rivers were also used
for commerce.
On your trip to Historic Jonesborough, be
sure to take a relaxing carriage ride. Discover
Jonesborough from a whole new perspective from
your perch in a horse-drawn carriage. Take a
guided tour or just enjoy the pleasant Appalachian
mountain scenery downtown with the clip-clop of
horse hooves echoing down the street.
Dr. Samuel Cunningham was an internationally known
physician and surgeon of the 18th century who was interested
in bringing a transportation system to Jonesborough. His
house was on Main Street and he wanted the tracks built in
front of his house so he could watch the train go by from
his porch. He put his medical practice on hold from 1849 to
1859 to serve as president of the East Tennessee and Virginia
Railroad. Cunningham and 29 other men, called “The Immortal
Thirty,” put their own personal properties up for collateral in
order to bring the railroad to town. Dr. Cunningham returned
to practice medicine. Much to his disappointment, the terrain
forced the tracks to be built behind his house.
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2014–2015 Jonesborough Visitors Guide