Deep South Traditions

10/01/2024

AMAZING TREASURES IN AN UNEXPECTED LOCATION

All proceeds from this sale benefit the Camp Forrest Foundation

Lots of great things for home and gifts! Christmas is just around the corner so get your shopping done early! Check out the link below for photos and more details.

https://www.estatesales.net/GA/Stockbridge/30281/4245732

06/15/2024

Camp Forrest hats now available!

Grab one today at the Camp Forrest Foundation store (https://campforrestfoundation.square.site/).

Let us know you think about them.

04/30/2024

Commercial Property in Stockbridge

• +/- .968 acres (42,152 square feet) survey available

• +/- 100 feet of road frontage on high traffic State Highway 42 (one of the busiest thoroughfares in Henry County)

• Daily traffic count approximately 30,000 vehicles

• +/- 1,400 square foot block/stucco historic building with new roof, multiple ADA ramps, outside security lights, and alarm security system

• Antique pine wood flooring throughout building

• Two easily accessible gravel driveway entrance/exit to property

• Ample level lot parking and expansion possibilities behind building

• C2 zoned permitted uses include Restaurants, Retail warehouses/wholesalers; bowling alley, billiard hall, pet shops, bakery, catering establishments, sporting field and complexes, automobile wash/wax center, automobile rental and leasing facilities, automobile service repair stations, automobile broker (no vehicle storage), stationery, office supply and equipment stores, ambulance services, used appliances stores, funeral home, mortuaries, and crematoriums, indoor commercial recreation areas, department store, furniture store, health services clinic or hospital, dental office, trade shop (electrical, plumbing, heating & cooling, and roofing/siding), pawn shop, second hand store (including apparel, music, movies, gaming and books), florist and gift shops

Call Elizabeth Taylor, AREA Real Estate, 404-316-2753 for more information and to view property.

Thanks!

04/26/2024

Come visit us in Huntsville today and tomorrow for the Alabama Military Collectors Association show!

We have a Camp Forrest display in addition to our books, hats, poppy pins, and graphic tshirts.

04/14/2024

Tennessee Maneuvers Remembered - 2024 is Saturday, May 4 in Carthage, TN. So much to see and learn! Come join us for a fun filled day.

04/12/2024

Camp Forrest Friday!

Camp Forrest offered many items for sale to soldiers in the Post Exchange (PX). They ranged from the extraordinary to the ordinary, from fancy silk pillow shams to simple items like stationery and matches. Here we have two examples of stationery from the Camp Forrest PX, just the thing for writing a letter home. The PX was not the only amenity at Camp Forrest. There were also tennis courts, movie theaters, servicemen’s clubs, a library, and even a 9-hole golf course.

Have information or artifacts about Camp Forrest, Northern Field or Tennessee Maneuvers? email [email protected]

Need help finding military records?
email Blue Yonder Research at [email protected]

07/28/2023

Wrangler footware

Inventory available for immediate delivery. Call me to place your order.

07/26/2023

Wrangler footware

Stock available for immediate delivery. Call me to place ypur order!

07/24/2023

Wrangler's Newest Shoe

Stock available for immediate shipment. Contact me to place am order.

07/22/2023

Did you know ... Wrangler now carries shoes?

Check out this one. It's the 6" Work Rugged Wedge Boot with a nano toe.

Yes it is a work boot!!

Your customers will thank you for carrying these boots. Not only will he hit the ground running but he'll look stylish doing it!!

Contact me so we can get these shoes on your shelves ASAP.

03/05/2022

On this date in 1941, The Jackson Sun reported the War Department was considering two locations for a $500,000 airport for Camp Forrest. Location one was in Tullahoma and on the opposite side of Camp Forrest. Although the land was a bit hilly, the railroad ran adjacent to the land. The second site was the old Manchester airport, which was located about 12 miles from Camp Forrest and several miles from the nearest rail point.

The War Department eventually selected the location closer to Camp Forrest. While the airport was referred to by a variety of names, it was eventually called the William Northern Army Air Field. While most of the original buildings have been dismantled, the airport is still in use today as the Tullahoma Regional Airport. (Baulch, Jerry T. “Half Million Dollar Airport at Camp Forrest, The Jackson Sun, Jackson, TN, 3/4/1941)



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02/28/2022

The Camp Forrest Foundation site is live! Check it out!

02/14/2022

Thank you so much Tullahoma Chamber of Commerce for selecting Dr. Elizabeth Taylor as this week's Business of the Week!!

Congrats, Dr. Elizabeth Taylor, Author Tullahoma Area Chamber of Commerce Business of the Week!

Dr. Elizabeth Taylor is an author and researcher of Camp Forrest, which was a World War II induction, training, and prisoner of war military base in Tullahoma. She has written two books on Camp Forrest and is working on a third one. Books are available from online and local retailers. If you have any stories, photographs, or artifacts related to Camp Forrest, William Northern Airfield, Prisoners of War, or the Tennessee Maneuvers, please feel free to contact her at 404-316-2753 or [email protected].

Phone: 404-316-2753

Web: www.CampForrest.com

Email: [email protected]


Thanks to our Business of the Week Sponsor Chick-fil-A Tullahoma!

02/09/2022

How will you make history?

She wasn’t supposed to be there of course. She was meant to be in relative safety, sitting on a transport barge in the English channel with all the other journalists. But the previous evening, Martha Gellhorn had boldly boarded a hospital barge with her press credentials and the story that she was there to interview nurses. It was a sham, of course, but it got her onboard, where she found a bathroom and locked herself in. She spent a miserable night, horribly seasick, but when she crept out of her hiding place the next morning, she had a front-row seat to one of history’s greatest moments - the invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944. Thousands of ships and 160,000 men faced the great cliffs as tons of bombs rained from overhead. It would be perhaps the greatest news story of all time, but Martha found that it wasn’t her skill as a writer that was needed. The sea was filled with dead and wounded soldiers, and she leapt into action, helping wherever and however she could. At nightfall, she waded ashore with the medics and found herself on Omaha Beach, a stretcher-bearer with blistered hands, soaked to the skin with sea water and exhaustion. She would labor through the night, the daring she had known the night before transformed into bravery as she followed the mine sweepers. In the days to come, Martha Gellhorn would leave that place a different person; no longer an observer of history, but a participant…the lone woman in the D-Day invasion. Heroism sometimes arrives on a wave of opportunity, and we either rise or we don’t.

02/05/2022

Interested in Art and World War II? Be sure to attend the Trousdale County Archives exhibit of Prisoner of War artwork. It's from May 2 - 28.

01/28/2022

Mark your calendar!!

FREE FIELD TRIP FOR STUDENTS!
If you know a school teacher…
Please tell them about this event.

Smith County Historical Tourism Society collaborated with Elizabeth Taylor, author and Camp Forrest expert, to create this FREE event as a prelude to Tennessee Maneuvers Remembered.
TMR is an event to raise money for tourism development related to the maneuvers.
Groups are welcome and we hope you will schedule your tour soon!
Thanks to the Trousdale County Historical Society and its president, John Oliver, for their generous donation allowing this event to be free!