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Dewey Slaven’s 1960 Departure Ends No Business Community
Deep in Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, a place called “No Business” thrived for 164 years. Richard Harve Slaven built the first home there in 1796, starting a community that grew to 300 souls by the late 1800s.
Families like the Crabtrees, Blevins, and Burkes made their own shoes, cured ham, and lived off the land. After World War II, though, young men saw the world and never came back…