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The Highway 127 Corridor Sale, also called the 127 Yard Sale, [1] is an outdoor second-hand sale held annually for four days beginning the first Thursday in August along U.S. Route 127 (US 127). The event has been promoted as "The World's Longest Yard Sale ."
U.S. Route 127 (US 127) in Tennessee is a 129.5-mile-long (208.4 km) United States Numbered Highway from Chattanooga to the Kentucky state line at Static. The highways connects through Dunlap, Pikeville, Crossville, and Jamestown. Throughout its length, US 127 straddles the line between East Tennessee and Middle Tennessee.
U.S. Route 127 (US 127) is a 758-mile-long (1,220 km) north–south U.S. Highway in the eastern half of the United States. The southern terminus of the route is at US 27 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
A more than two-decade tradition, the Highway 70 yard sale will dot the road between Nashville and Memphis with antique collections and flea markets between June 6-8.
The event was started by Sarah Ann Bowers in 1986. She wanted to improve the beautiful Cordell Hull Highway (Kentucky Routes 63 and 90 in Barren County) and needed to prove that the road was very well traveled in the area. [1] In 2001, over 140,000 travelers visited the area from miles around just to take in yard sales along the specific routes.
This post is part of our series on such 'don't miss' sales. It's the perfect marriage of travel and shopping: take a few days and shop Deals worth the wait: the Lincoln Highway multi-state yard sale
The song was named for Cumberland Gap, a narrow pass through the Cumberland Mountains, which was explored by Daniel Boone in the 1770s, as he blazed the Wilderness Road.In recognition of this heritage, the town of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, hosts the monthly "Cumberland Mountain Music Show", with live gospel, bluegrass, and country music.
The weekly stage show and broadcast would play an important role in the popularization of country music and is today the longest running radio program in the world. [2] By the late 1950s, the city's record labels dominated the country music genre with slick pop-country (Nashville sound), overtaking honky-tonk in the charts.