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The 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, also known as the Gatlinburg wildfires, [1] were a complex of wildfires which began in late November 2016. Some of the towns most impacted were Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, both near Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Sherman's March to the Sea (also known as the Savannah campaign or simply Sherman's March) was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by William Tecumseh Sherman, major general of the Union Army.
2016 – The Gatlinburg Fire began as a wildfire in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and spread into the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, killing 14. [citation needed] 2016 – A fire started in a ramen shop burned 140 buildings in Itoigawa, Japan. 2017 – October 2017 Iberian wildfires.
Seventy-five years later after the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history, Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel fire touched Augusta, and remains a mystery.
While the 2016 Great Smoky Mountains arson fires mainly affected the nearby towns of Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, many cabins did burn down in the northern part of the valley. After a downed power line ignited the dry foliage in Little Cove Gap, an isolated fire quickly spread, thereby consuming the surrounding structures towards the northern ...
A small pocket east of Gatlinburg is without water, but hotels and rental owners have notified guests. Why visitors should keep their plans Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge plans
After a plea by the Bishops of the Episcopal and Catholic churches in Atlanta, Sherman did not burn the city's churches or hospitals. The remaining war resources were then destroyed in the aftermath in Sherman's March to the Sea. The fall of Atlanta was a critical point in the Civil War. Its much publicized fall gave confidence to the Northerners.
Webb Creek Utility District provides drinking water and other utility services to 580 customers in Cobbly Nob, Cosby and Pittman Center, including hotels and resorts that are all currently without ...