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AWARDS:
2007 Regional Emmy Nominee

2005
Telly Award Recipient
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GHOSTS
OF GREEN BOTTOM
In 1825, William Jenkins did the unthinkable. He crossed
the rugged Appalachians to establish a Southern-style plantation
on the wilderness fringe of Western Virginia. At its peak in the
mid-1800s, the sprawling estate employed around eighty slaves working
seventeen hundred acres of rich Ohio River bottomland.
Being
loyal Virginians, the family cast its lot with the Confederacy during
the Civil War. Their actions would trigger a series of fateful events
that ended the plantation lifestyle and nearly destroyed the family's
once-proud legacy.
Over a century later all that remained of this massive enterprise
was the family home.
With
the support of the US Army Corps of Engineers, a team of archeologists
turned a lot of dirt to rediscover the past and help interpret this
lost era in American history.
From
the award winning team that brought you “Red Salt &
Reynolds,” explore this fascinating process as traditional
research and modern archaeology combine to reveal the “Ghosts
of Green Bottom.”
Program
Length: 28 Minutes
2005
Telly Award Recipient
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