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During the Civil War many people living in the mountians of North Carolina moved up to the moutains tops to get from the fighting. Union renegade troops called "Bushwackers" were often in the area stealing food and animals from the local people. People who lived on top of the mountains and in other remote areas escaped notice of the union soldiers. The settlers didn't own the land the moved to, but they could build and grow anything they wanted. If they wanted to work they went down the mountian. People didn't pay taxes. If people decied to move it was free land to any one that wanted it. A few of the mountain settlements survived into the twentieth century. Cades Cove in Tennessee and Cataloochee in Waynesville, NC are both examples of places people moved to get away fron the Civil War. |
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