Beginning on page 23 of Wilma Dykeman's book The French Broad: In 1791 a scarcely documented flood occurred in the whole area, which Davy Crockett, over on the Nolichucky (river), described as "the second coming of Noah's Fresh." From that date on, floods became more... Decades later, Paw and family would take the train to Dayton, Tenn., and then the family took them in a wagon and all would have the picnic reunions riverside. Many more decades later he described to me the sun setting into the treetops down the river and I fell in love with the mighty rivers that flow through the mystical mountains.