Births to Giles County residents in 2004: 189

Number of Giles County residents who died in 2004: 221

The movie “Dirty Dancing” was filmed at Mountain Lake in Giles County.

Eggleston was first named Gunpowder Springs because of the odor from a sulfur spring located there.

Henry Reed, a famous fiddler born in 1884, spent his adult life in Glen Lyn, where he lived until his death in 1968. The town began hosting an annual Henry Reed Memorial Fiddler’s Convention in 2003.

The town of Narrows was strategically important to Confederate troops during the Civil War. From Tannery Hill the Confederates could keep a lookout in three directions. The old breastworks were built there to guard the North’s approach. Confederate soldiers were quartered there to guard against Union soldiers passing through on their way to cut the railroad line between Dublin and Bristol and capture the saltworks at Saltville.

In 1891, the residents of Narrows predicted an industrial boom in their near future. This idea prompted them to change the name of Narrows to Intermont. They thought this name would spur business because it sounded more distinguished. Later, when the prediction did not come true, the name was changed back to Narrows.