The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-01-17
THE wATAUaA SETTLEMENT

THE WATAUdA bETTLEMENT
will be in the charge Of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, they as an
organization in this State having offered
their services in reporting an important
era of pioneer history in Tennessee,
The building will be near as possible
a facsimile of the old Watauga settle
ment on the Watauga River. There
will be perhaps dozen log cabins with
puncheon or earth floors, wooden shut
tiers for the windows, doors hung with
wooden hinges and fastened by wooden
latches. No carpenter or mason's art
was used in building these rude cabins
of the wilderness. The early Watauga
settler had beside his trusty rifle no tool
or instrument but an axe, Ratchet and
butcher knife.
THE Furnishings, COSTUMES, MANNERS,
with all the industries of the women Of
that early period, will be faithfully re-
produced, and thus we will hear again
the treadle and the bang, bang of the
loom, the musical whiz of the busy
wheel, the click, click of the reel to the
softer sounds of the cards turning out
the creamy bats and slender rolls of
wool or cotton, the hacking of the fax,
and see the sweet, rosy-cheeked young
maiden who sits at her wheel and thinks
and sings of her lover, who is one of the
tall Watauga boys" Here will be per-
feet blending Of history, self-sacrihce,
contentment and romance. The wear
ing apparel of those women was all
homemade, not a single article of
dress being of foreign growth or manu-
facture.
TWAS HERE AT wATAUGA
that the heroic women proved beyond
a doubt that they were worthy help
mates and companions in peace as well
as in war to the strong and noble pa
triots of that day. Woman was here in
her highest glory, and from this life
of domestic diligence and contentment
spring many of our greatest and best
men and women in our'State to-day.
The sound of the merry fiddle and the
reel on the puncheon floor will make
happy the heart of the maiden as it did
| in the long ago. The hoe-cake and cider
will be tested once more, and all the
charm of simplicity and picturesqueness
will return again. Although the last old
CABIN HAS FALLEN INTO RUINS,
decay and obliteration, the memory Of
their occupants will still be immortal
| Fnhnro aho,,lI oil H. l. II
Nancy Warde, the "Beloved Woman, y
the Indian Queen and<prophetess, who
lived at the City of Refuge in her hut
which was made of all sorts of skins
OF wild animals, ins all its barbariC
| splendor. For it was to her that the
settlement of Watauga owed its life
To Nancy Warde's memory all honor
should be paid. The new Liberty bel
with its sacred gifts from the decend
ants of these Watauga patriots, will
ring from its great heart of treasures
"peace and good will to all mankind
The peace pillow, whose handles still con
| tain some of the
| HISTORIC WOOD AND METAL
from sacred churches and schools, viii
be there to prove that our swords have
been turned into plowshares and oul
spears into pruning hooks-and tha
our paths are in the ways of pleasant
ness and peace-and under the white
flag of peace and liberty we will al
meet in harmonious sisterhood to recall
the struggles of the past-and give it
living pictures in striking contrast with
the blessings of the present. Every
county and every home can contribute
to make this Centennial a success anC
prove ourselves worthy descendants O
the heroic men and women of early
times.