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[edit] Brian Stansberry
E-mail: bstansberry@tntech.edu
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I'm a graduate student originally from Knoxville, Tennessee. (USA)
Click here for my personal website.
Click here for my Peakbagger.com page.
Wikipedia contributions:
- Created 56 full articles, complete with photos
- Greatly expanded, improved, and uploaded photos to 31 articles
- Over 4,000 total edits
- Photos contributed
[edit] Current Projects
[edit] The Great Smoky Mountains Wikipedia Project
This project has three basic parts: communities, peaks, and trails:
1. Smoky Mountain Communities (Category: Communities of the Great Smoky Mountains)
I have created the following articles for this project:
- The Sugarlands
- Wears Valley, Tennessee
- Roaring Fork
- Oconaluftee
- Hazel Creek
- Greenbrier
- Cataloochee
- Little Greenbrier
- Cosby, Tennessee
- Del Rio, Tennessee
- Walland, Tennessee
- Tremont, Tennessee
I have greatly expanded and contributed photos to the following articles for this project:
- Gatlinburg, Tennessee - greatly expanded geography and history sections
- Townsend, Tennessee - created history section, re-did introduction
- Cades Cove - greatly expanded geology and history sections, added "historical structures" section and numerous photos
- Pigeon Forge, Tennessee - created history section, expanded geography section, uploaded photos
- Newport, Tennessee - created history section, expanded geography section, added numerous photos
- Sevierville, Tennessee - expanded history and geography section, added numerous photos
- Elkmont, Tennessee - created history and geography section, uploaded numerous photos
- Pittman Center, Tennessee - created history section, expanded geography section, uploaded photos
- Hartford, Tennessee - expanded from minor stub, uploaded photos
- Appalachian balds - expanded, added photos, table, and clarification.
- Foothills Parkway - expanded, added section describing the Foothills, history section, uploaded 10 or so photos.
- Little River - expanded, added 3 photos (not the top one)
- Happy Valley, Tennessee — expanded from a stub, contributed photos
I am currently collecting materials for the following article ideas or expansions relating to this project:
- Bryson City, North Carolina - planning to add history and geography section, photos
- Cherokee, North Carolina - planning to expand
2. Peaks of the Great Smokies
I have created/expanded the following articles for this project:
- Thunderhead Mountain
- Mount Guyot
- Old Black
- Gregory Bald
- Silers Bald
- Chimney Tops
- Mount Cammerer
- Mount Kephart
- Shuckstack
- Andrews Bald
- Tricorner Knob
- Spence Field
- Mount Sequoyah
- Mount Collins
- Mount Chapman
- Charlies Bunion — I expanded this one from a stub
- Marks Knob
- Mount Sterling — expanded from a stub
I am currently collecting information for the following ideas or expansions relating to this project:
- Newton Bald
- Luftee Knob
- Cataloochee Mountain
- Ocoee Supergroup
Trails of the Great Smokies
I have created the following:
- Roundtop Trail
- Sugarland Mountain Trail
- Meigs Mountain Trail
- Snake Den Ridge Trail
- Maddron Bald Trail
I am currently collection information for the following:
- Forney Creek Trail
- Eagle Creek Trail
- Noland Creek Trail
- Cove Mountain Trail
- Deep Creek Trail
- Balsam Mountain Trail
- Cooper Road Trail
- Hannah Mountain Trail
- Gabes Mountain Trail
[edit] Prehistoric Tennessee and Archaeological Sites
I'm currently creating or expanding articles related to the Cherokee and pre-Cherokee inhabitants of Tennessee and associated major archaeological sites. I have created or expanded the following thus far:
- List of archaeological sites in Tennessee
- Overhill Cherokee
- Old Stone Fort
- Tellico Blockhouse
- History of Tennessee - added Prehistory section
- Pinson Mounds - created to incorporate smaller article
- Mound Bottom
- Little Tennessee River - added prehistory/history section
- Icehouse Bottom - expanded from a stub
- Toqua
- Tomotley
- Eva site
- Tanasi - expanded from a stub, added photos
- Fort Southwest Point
- Morganton, Tennessee
- Citico
- Chilhowee
- Mialoquo
- Chota - expanded from a stub, added several photos and gallery
- Tallassee
- Bat Creek inscription - reorganized and added image
I am currently collecting materials for the following:
- Hiwassee Island - Mississippian-era site in Meigs County
- Great Hiwassee - Overhill village in McMinn and Polk counties
- Coats-Hines site - a Paleo-Indian site in Williamson County
- Moccasin Bend - create separate article (currently redirects)
- Norris Basin
[edit] East and Middle Tennessee Articles
I have created the following:
- Roan Mountain
- Cordell Hull Birthplace State Park
- Scott's Gulf
- Ozone Falls State Natural Area
- Ozone, Tennessee
- Lone Mountain State Forest
- Long Hunter State Park
- Cross Mountain Mine Disaster
- Burra Burra Mine
I have greatly expanded or added multiple images to the following:
- Knoxville, Tennessee - expanded Geography and History sections, uploaded several photographs
- Greenback, Tennessee - created history section
- Appalachian Trail by state - expanded the Tennessee section from the 1st paragraph and added two photos
- Marble Springs - expanded from stub and added photos
- Maryville, Tennessee - expanded several sections and uploaded photos
- Burgess Falls State Park - expanded from stub, added photos
- Fall Creek Falls State Park - expanded, added sections regarding geographical setting, features, and history; 4 photos
- Rock Island State Park - added photos and geography, history, and features sections.
- Longhunter - added Tenn. section
- Henry Timberlake — expanded
- Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park — expanded, added photos
- Frozen Head State Park — expanded from a stub, added most photos
- Oak Ridge, Tennessee — added photographs and expanded geography/history sections
- Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park — expanded from a stub, added photographs
- Greeneville, Tennessee — expanded history and geography sections, added images
I am currently collecting materials for the following miscellaneous article ideas or expansions:
- Crab Orchard Mountains - planning to expand
- Claiborne County, Tennessee - planning to add a history section, geography section
- Athens, Tennessee - planning to expand, add photos
- Loudon, Tennessee - planning to expand, add photos
- Tellico Plains - planning to expand history section
- Blount Mansion - planning to expand
- Big Barren Creek Flood of 1916
[edit] Tennessee Infobox Photos Project
Planning to add at least one photo to the article infobox for as many cities, towns, and unincorporated communities in Tennessee as possible. Thus far, I have added at least one photo to the following: Athens, Celina, Jamestown, Livingston, Gainesboro, Byrdstown, Niota, Rockwood, Louisville, Friendsville, Madisonville, Cleveland, Charleston, Calhoun, Sweetwater, Philadelphia, Kingston, Crab Orchard, Crossville, Wartburg, Ozone, Algood, Sparta, Spencer, Pikeville, Carthage, Hartsville, Ashland City, Charlotte, Waverly, Camden, Eva, Dandridge, Rutledge, Tazewell, Maynardville, Clinton, Decatur, Benton, Jacksboro, Jonesborough, Ducktown, and Alcoa.
While adding photos to these articles, I'm also adding information regarding the town's namesake, when it was founded, and its major roads and geographical features.
[edit] Miscellaneous Articles
I have created or expanded the following:
- North Franklin Mountain
- U.S. Route 80 — created Georgia section, added image
I'm planning to expand the following:
- Charleston, South Carolina — will probably just add a few photos to the history section
- Magnolia Plantation and Gardens — already added some of the photographs
- Middleton Place
- Cypress Gardens (South Carolina) — already added lead photograph
- Folly Beach, South Carolina — already added the lead photograph
- Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
I'm planning to create the following:
- Hunt's Hole — currently redirects to Kilbourne Hole
[edit] Basic edits and image uploads
I have made non-minor edits and/or uploaded images to: Tennessee Technological University, Lachlan McIntosh, Unicoi Range, Hueco Tanks, Grace Moore, Tanasi, Chota, Tuskegee, Oconostota, Great Tellico, Henry Middleton, Arthur Middleton, Little Tennessee River, James White, John Sevier, Ramsey House, Mayna Treanor Avent Studio, Tennessee Valley, and Walden Ridge.

