Preserving our past for our future An archive of pictures, documents, and stories relating to Bays Mountain Park in Kingsport, Tennessee Favorite Stories... How Bays Mountain got its nameEarly settlers on the mountainThat time that Ruby Nelms fell off the mountain!How Hugh Hamblen lived to regret teaching his wife to read and writeWhy 14-yr-old John Fincher had to return from Chattanooga aloneLife as a 1953 Fire Tower Lookout on Bays MountainOdell Harbour Depew, schoolteacher on Bays Mountain in 1915Moonshine StillsBuilding the Dam Recent Updates Sun July 17Added pages about History Features & Programs and DonationsWed Apr 13Added new pages about early settlers and the Bays name(a special shout-out to Sally in New Zealand for asking those questions!)Added new content to the Hamblen, Fincher, and Filter Plant Operators page