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Coal Creek?
Lake City?
Rocky Top?
What's in
a Name?
One Tennessee mountain
town has a penchant for
changing its name every few
decades. And some folks
tend to never give up on the
old one(s).
Tim Isbel, vice chair of the Anderson County Commission, hopes to develop a resort at Rocky Top,
Tennessee.
F
irst it was Coal Creek.
Then
the
Tennessee town in Anderson
County became the more stylish "Lake City"-a nod to being a gateway to Norris Lake,
built by the Tennessee Valley
Authority in the 1930s.
Splashy? Yes. But business
began drying up by the early
2000s. And that's when city
leaders, in 2014, agreed to
change "Lake City" to "Rocky
Top."
Yep, good ol' Rocky Top. Just
by Joe Tennis
like the classic country song.
Police cars now say Rocky
Top. And so does the handsome Rocky Top City Hall.
Even so, the post office for
zip code 37769 still says "Lake
City." And so do some businesses in town. "I think you'll
have some people hang on
to the Lake City name," says
Stephanie Wells, the director
of the Anderson County Tourism Council.
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