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Shopping

Southeastern Tennessee offers a number of shopping options, most of them in the Chattanooga/Cleveland area. Chattanooga has four major shopping malls, as well as a burgeoning, revitalized downtown area. The largest mall, Hamilton Place, is just off I-75 on the north side of the city; Eastgate is a little further south off Brainard Road;Northgate is off Highway 153; and Warehouse Row, a converted commercial district now an outlet mall, is on Market Street just outside the downtown area. Chattanooga’s downtown district has
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The People

by greatsmokymountainsguide at 3:58am Sun, 19 Jul 2009 under travel, books, vacation, education, holiday, Trip, blogroll, accommodation, hotel, Transport; 86 views
These mountains are the ancestral home of the Cherokee Indians. They called them “Great Smoky” for theblue-gray mists that often shroud the peaks. Scatteredthroughout the remote hills, valleys and bottomlandsare families that still live in the self-sufficient, primitive fashion oftheir ancestors more than 100 years ago. Most people who once lived in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have been moved out, but a few still hold life leases.
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