Eerie Alabama by Alan Brown

Author:Alan Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2019-09-10T16:00:00+00:00

THE LEGEND OF NOCCALULA FALLS

Noccalula Falls is a ninety-foot-tall waterfall located on land that was once owned by R.A. Mitchell, the former mayor of Gadsden, Alabama. In 1940, his daughter and heir, Sadie Mitchell Elmore, proposed to sell the land to the City of Gadsden for $50,000. Six years later, Gadsden purchased the land for $70,000 for the purpose of converting it into a state park. In the 1950s, the city began making improvements to the site, and in 1976, the park was listed in the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage. Each year, over fifty thousand tourists are drawn to Noccalula Falls Park by the beauty and history of its aboriginal fort, caves, abandoned dam, Black Creek Gorge, Botanical Gardens, unusual rock formations, Civil War carvings, pioneer carvings, an old pump house for Dwight Cotton Mill and by the legend that gave the area its name.

According to the legend, Noccalula was the beautiful daughter of a Cherokee chief whose tribe lived near the falls. She was betrothed to the chief of a powerful rival tribe, but Noccalula was in love with a young man from her own tribe. Her father disapproved of the match because he was not nearly as wealthy as the young man he had chosen for her. She begged her father to allow her to marry her own true love, but he turned a deaf ear to her pleas. On the day of her wedding, Noccalula could not help but think of her beloved while her relatives clothed her in a beautiful dress. When no one was looking, she slipped away from the wedding party and rushed to the waterfall. The wedding guests stared in awe as Noccalula walked to the edge of the precipice and plunged into the churning waters below. Her guilt-stricken father decreed that the falls were to be known as Noccalula Falls from that day forward. For years, people venturing out to the falls on moonlit nights claim to have seen her ghostly form standing in the misty waters at the bottom of the falls.

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