Tonight, Justin and I will be heading out to Montgomery Bell State Park, around 4,000 acres of protected area. I’m really excited, in part because I get to fish while we’re there. In checking out where we were going to stay, I came across this brief history lesson… “The area’s iron ore industry is traceable to 1795 when Gen. James Robertson, a war hero and founder of Nashville, established the Cumberland Iron Works. Seven years later, Montgomery Bell came from Pennsylvania to operate the furn

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