Flowers for Dandridge, TN

Dandridge is old — the second-oldest town in Tennessee, chartered in 1783, and the only town in the country named for Martha Dandridge Washington. Its whole reason for surviving is a story locals still tell: when the TVA dammed the French Broad in the 1940s and Douglas Lake began to rise, the historic district was spared by an earthen dike built to hold the water back, so the little downtown of frame storefronts and the old courthouse sits below lake level to this day. That saved district is where most flower orders start — anniversary bouquets to the homes off Meeting Street, get-well arrangements headed to Jefferson Memorial, sympathy work for the county churches — and from there the routes climb out to the lake. Douglas Lake wraps the southern edge with marinas and cabins, and beyond it the land rises toward Sevierville and the Great Smoky Mountains.

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