Show wrote when you and I 1 were young maggie the place abade famous by the old love song when you and I 1 were young maggie maggle Is at duck town tenn near a creaking old alir which ground meal ineal for the in deans and pioneers and the occa elon slon the return ot of an aged couple to the acene scene of their romance re lates a writer in the cleveland plain dealer the site Is marked by a tablet placed there by the daughters of the american It revolution evolution which tells all about it and about the au an thor george W johnson who there met wooed and married maggie harris and who years afterward wrote the poem about her early in the eighteenth century johnson who according to fistori ans was a rambler and hunter bunter of gold heard lidard strange tales from the indians about wealth in the moun bains of east tennessee johnson loaded his canoe and took off fro from his home near the mouth of the P lift bassee river following the river he reached spring creek which finally became so shallow he be aban boned his cahoe and walked hear ing a creaking milt mill far up the creek johnson strode in that direction and then he saw maggie he ile gave dp up his search for gold and stayed ar around aund until he had won her and ds then took her to his home down the river tears years afterward when both were aged and gray they returned to the bills hills and the scene of the old mill will where maggie lived when she was young this inspired johnson to write the poem ills poem was found later by a musician 3 A butterfield who set it to music |