One of the more unusual sights we saw was what appeared to be an airplane on top of their hillside building.
Given the high banks on the river many homeowners had to come up with unique solutions to getting their boats down in the water. This home owner has a "train track" for their pontoon boat.
We reached the Rock Harbor marina and prepared to leave the boat to travel back to Tarboro. We were gone for nearly three weeks as we traveled to be with our son and family
Upon return we spent a day getting ready to go again. Members of the Yacht Club that meets at the Rock Harbor marina invited us to their Chili Cookoff. I went over and enjoyed the chili and conversation with them.
The town of Clarksville, TN was only a day downriver from Nashville. The town provides a free dock on their waterfront and the city employee responsible for taking reservations was kind enough to drive us out to a grocery store during her lunch hour.
The town of Clarksville has an excellent guide for a walking tour of town. One highlight is this old building with 1870's signs painted big enough to be seen by river boat crews on the river.
There were several murals painted on downtown buildings
This old movie theater is reported to be the shooting location for the music video of
Sheryl Crow's hit "All I Wanna Do".
On January 22, 1999 a pre-dawn F3 tornado hit the middle of downtown Clarksville, destroying much of downtown. This church was destroyed but was rebulit with the original steeple tower framework.
One building spared by the tornado was the Customs House Museum. Originally, built as a Post Office it has had many uses and now serves as an area museum.
The County Courthouse was destroyed but rebuilt as a reproduction of the original structure.
The First Baptist Church in town was huge and took a whole city block. There was an original sanctuary that housed an Hispanic Mission and another building (pictured) that is home to an Asian mission. My guess from the lettering on their sign is that it is Chinese but I'm not sure.
One famous citizen of Clarksville was Wilma Rudolph. At the 1960 Olymicas in Rome, she was the first woman to win three gold medals in one competition. The statue near the waterfront is dedicated to her and her accomplishments.
After leaving Clarksville on October 28, we continued downriver reaching the Land Between the Lakes and the crossover to the Tennessese River on October 29. We headed south and stopped for a day at the Pebble Isle Marina. Nearby was the location of a 19th Century town of Old Johnsonville. The town was at the terminus of a rail line during the Civil War and was turned into a supply location by Union Troops. Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was able to set up canons on the opposite bank of the Tennessee River and with his usual audacity was able to destroy over $6 million of supplies at this depot.
The I-40 bridge. The highway that starts in Wilmington, NC and goes to Barstow, California.
This is the first tow we saw that had its own dinghy! (Note the small tug lashed to the side of the big tow boat.)
We saw some fall color above the rock layers on shore.
Our boat house batteries were at the end of life so we had to stay at marinas so we could use shorepower to keep the batteries charged. The signage for this marina, the Mermaid Marina, is one of the more unusual signs we saw.
Unfortunately, the Mermaid Marina was about as run down as this boat advertising the marina.
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