Show Wrote When You and I IVI Were VI ere Young Maggie Song The place made famous by the old love song SOIl When You and I Were IVere Young Maggie Ia le Is at Ducktown Tenn near a u croaking creaking old mill which ground meal men 1 for the Indians and pioneers anti the occasion the return of an nn aged n J couple to tile the scene of their ro ro- romance romance romance mance relates a writer In the Cleve Cleve- Cleveland Cleveland land Plain Denier Dealer The site Is marked by a tablet placed there by the Daughters of the Amer Amer- American AmerIcan Amerlean ican lean devolution He which tells oil all about It and about the author George e W. W Johnson who there met wooed and anel married Maggie ln ie Harris and who years ears afterward wrote the poem about her Early In the Eighteenth Ei century Johnson who according to historians was a rambler and hunter of gold heard strange tales from the Indians about wealth In the mountains of east cast Tennessee Johnson loaded his bis canoe and took oft off from his home near the mouth of the rIver rl Follow Follow- Following FollowIng Following ing the river he reached Spring creek creele which finally became so shallow he be abandoned his canoe and walked Hearing Bearing a creaking mill far up the creek Johnson strode In that direction And then he saw Maggie Ma gle He lie gave up his search for gold find and stayed sta ell around until he be had bad won her and then her to his home me down Iown the river Years afterward vard when both oth 1 were aged and gray they returned return d to the hills and the scene of the old mill where Maggie Margie Ma le lived when she was young This Inspired Johnson to write the poem Ills poem was found later Inter by a musician J. J A A. A Butterfield who set It to music |