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Newman’s Ridge (Hancock Co, TN)
Place ID: 1492
Type: community
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- UPDATED: 7.21.2025
- status: high-priority, in progress
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Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy
Lest We Forget: The Melungeon Colony of Newman’s Ridge
Melungeons: The Vanishing Colony of Newman’s Ridge
My Melungeon Heritage: A Story of Life on Newman’s Ridge
The Melungeons of Newman’s Ridge: A Portfolio of Portraits
The Melungeons of Newman’s Ridge: An Insider’s Perspective
mentions:
Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South
Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic Population
Melungeons: and Other Pioneer Families
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People
Melungeons: Footprints From the Past
Ascribed Ethnicity and the Ethnic Display Event: The Melungeons of Hancock County, Tennessee
Melungeon History and Myth
Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio
Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America
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