This was our weekend in January when Av had an event to attend in Huntsville, and we had decided to make it a real trip by going through Chattanooga (for the Aquarium) then over to Sewanee. This is Cowan, Tennessee where they have such a pretty downtown, with the retro Texaco:
and train station with museum inside:
Although the museum was closed that day, I put the camera up to a window, and…:
Shugie especially loves trains — I think we have enough Thomas to stretch from one side of our home to the other, seriously — so he was very happy that they have trains to climb and pretend on:
These are the *best* brothers:
Cowan is also where the Cumberland Mountain Tunnel is, an antebellum tunnel that according to my WPA book was bored by 400 slaves and is 2228 ft long. When completed in 1852, it was the longest railroad tunnel in the world. Keith cave, with stalactites over 40 feet long, is also in the area (these are some great pics).
Winchester, Tennessee had this great Oldham theater:
We looked for something in my Tennessee WPA book and ran by this:
and found what we were looking for, Hundred Oaks Castle, which is very hard to see from the street:

…but we saw Jack Daniel’s which I toured several years ago:
…and went to the downtown square:
…even ran up to the cemetery where Lem Motlow:
from Jack’s plot you can see the distillery:
…but the most interesting monument there was this one for Dick McGee: