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A Sinking Ship in Pigeon Forge?

By Judi Janofsky & Rich Steck

People have been traveling to Pigeon Forge for decades but the town really was put on the map when Dolly Parton, an East Tennessee native, opened Dollywood, a "family adventure" park themed around the nearby Great Smoky Mountains, in 1986. It was an instant hit and now Dollywood draws more than two million visitors a year.


But Pigeon Forge isn't only about Dollywood. There are now nearly 50 other attractions in town. Including a new one to open this spring, called Titantic Pigeon Forge.

If you're driving down the main parkway in town, you'll do a double-take when you see two huge smokestacks rising from behind the trees. You can't help but ask: "what is that?"

"That" is the 100-foot towering, ship-shaped museum/attraction devoted to the world's best-known ship, the Titanic.

Rising on a hill, the forward half of the ship has been re-created to half the size of the original that was sunk during its fateful maiden voyage in 1912.

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