Dave Cole

Scott's Gulf And Big Bottom Dave Cole

The southeastern corner of White County Tennessee contains a remarkably well preserved treasure trove of natural features and forgotten history. In their heyday the communities that occupied the Scott's Gulf area were a bustling community of stores schools farms and homes. By the early seventies not a single building remained. Today not even a single foundation stone can be found at Dodson, or the nearby town of Bethesda. What had once been a heavily traveled road between several small but bustling communities around the turn of the century had, in the intervening years, turned to little more than an extended ditch that was more water than road. The Davis family moved to the Big Bottom area White county's history. Although John White is remembered by the locals as one of the founding residents of White County and is recorded as moving into the area in 1789, the Davis family lived in the Big Bottom area at least as early as 1783. The author's great-great-great-great-grandfather Ephraim Davis is recorded as being born in White County in 1783.