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Tennessee Walking - Horse for Sale in Asheville, NC 28801
Hase
Hase, a remarkable 7-year-old Buttermilk buckskin gelding standing tall at ..
Asheville, North Carolina
Buckskin
Tennessee Walking
Gelding
8
Asheville, NC
NC
$2,000
1

About Newport, TN

The Great Indian Warpath passed through what is now Newport en route to the ancient Cherokee hunting grounds of northeastern Tennessee. The Warpath crossed the Pigeon River at a point approximately 0.2 miles (0.3 km) east of the McSween Memorial Bridge (US-321), in an area where the river is normally low enough to walk across. The first European traders to the area, arriving in the mid-18th century, called this point along the Pigeon River the "War Ford". During the American Revolution, the Cherokee aligned themselves with the British, and launched sporadic attacks against early Euro-American settlers in the Holston valley. In the waning months of the conflict in 1782, a detachment led by Gen.