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Rock City Barns






These used to dot the road ways. "See Rock City" painted on the roofs and sides of barns.First painted in 1935, there were as many as 900. Rock City was an attraction in Chattanooga, TN and the owners obviously had an ambitious marketing plan to paint barns from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. In 2005, 70 years after the first barns were painted less than 100 remained. This one is in Robbinsville, North Carolina.

As a bit if trivia, a gentleman by the name of Clark Byers painted the barns for 30 years until 1969. Over that time his handwork could be seen in 19 states.  Some of the more descriptive signs read “Beautiful Beyond Belief,” “The Eighth Wonder Of The World,” “Bring Your Camera,” and  “When You See Rock City, You See The Best.” (As in the above example.)


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