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Old 04-17-2015, 07:38 PM
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http://cityofpigeonforge.com/history...eon-forge.aspx

"The town takes the first part of its name from the Little Pigeon River, and the river takes its name from passenger pigeons. These birds, now extinct, were so numerous that they darkened the sky as they flew into the valley, and the beech trees along the river were stripped of limbs by the weight of their great numbers. The second part of the name came from the bloomery ‘forge’ built by Isaac Love in 1817."



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Good then, no worries about wrought iron pigeon forgeries.

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