David Crockett: American Hero from Limestone
Washington and Greene Counties in Tennessee have a rich history. The area was in what is now known as the “Lost State of Franklin,” an area that applied to become the 14 th state of the United States but was rejected. It was home to Andrew Johnson and, for a short time, Andrew Jackson. Then, in the 1950s and 1960s, Fess Parker played two nearly mythological giants on screen: David Crockett and Daniel Boone. Daniel Boone had been an early explorer of the area that would become East Tennessee. A carving in a tree in Washington County pronounced that “D. Boon cilled a Bar 1760 [sic].” [1] Boone was an early “trailblazer” who traveled the frontier creating trails people would follow into frontier lands. The other, David Crockett, native son of “Lime Stone [sic], on the Nola-chucky [sic] river” [2] , was born in a cabin on land straddling the Greene and Washington County borders in humble beginnings before he ros...