Show Wrote When You and I Were Young Maggie The place made famous lamous by the theold theold theold old love song When Veen You and I Were Young MaggIe Haggle is III at Ducktown Ducktown Duck Duck- town Tenn Teno near a creaking old mill which ground meal for the Indians In In- diane and pioneers and the occasion occasion occa occa- sion slon the return of ot an ao aged couple to the scene of ot their romance relates re reo re- re lates hates a writer In the Cleveland Plain Dealer The site Is marked I by a tablet placed there by the Daughters of the American Revolution which tells teUs all about It It and about the author author au thor George e W Johnson who there met wooed and married Maggie Harris and who years afterward wrote the poem about her Early Earll In the Eighteenth century Johnson who according to historians ans ens was a rambler and hunter of ot j I gold heard strange tales from the Indians about wealth In the I moun- moun I I tams of ot ea east t Tennessee JohnsonI Johnson I loaded his bis canoe canoe and took off oft from his home borne near the mouth of ot the III- III river Following the time river he he reached Spring creek which finally became so shallow he be abandoned aban- aban donld his canoe canoll and walked Hear lag ing a creaking mill mm far for up lip the creek I Johnson strode In tn that direction And then he saw Maggie lie He gave I up his search for gold and stayed around until be he had bad won ber bert hert and then took her to his bis home borne down the river Years afterward when both were aged and gray they returned to the hills bills and the scene of the old mill mm where Maggie lived when she was young This Inspired Johnson to write the poem Ills IUs poem was found later b by a musician J J. J A. A A. A Butterfield who set It to music |