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North Hamilton County's Online Newspaper for News, Events, History, & Culture in Soddy-Daisy, Red Bank, Signal Mountain, North Chattanooga, Hixson, Middle Valley, Dallas Bay, Lakesite, Sale Creek, Waldens Ridge, Mowbray Mountain and Northern Hamilton County, Tennessee.
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16 TH ANNUAL WORLD
LARGEST YARD SALE
TALK OF REGULATION ALONG
ROUTE
August 4, 2003
It’s that time again, start of schools just around the corner, two a day football
practices, dog days of August it must mean it’s time to go yard saleing along U.S. 127. For
fifteen years people from near and far have been invading the Cumberland Plateau and other areas
along US. route 127. Every year during August people gather to get there hands on a little bit of
everything during “The World’s Longest Yard. This year’s s sale runs from August 2 thorough
August 10 Th. The sale runs from Alabama all the way thorough northern Kentucky.
Beside finding “treasures to junk”, “The World’s Longest Sale” has been a
festival in itself. Some yard saler’s make the week of it, some just a day or two and others a few
hours. No matter the duration of your stay, your pace will be slow. Over the last fifteen years the
popularity of the yard sale has grown rapidly. 127 is a beautiful stretch of highway which runs in
and out of the Cumberland Mountains. On most days one wound find an open highway, stopping
occasionally for a school bus, a tractor or maybe to look at a deer or two. During the week of the
sale life changes and the world comes to visit.
Area residents and commercial concerns regularly traveling the 450 mile stretch
have complained about the increasing problems accrued by the yard sale. The sale for the most
part is unrestricted. Tents, tables and booths pop up everywhere, some with land owners
permission others without permissions. Traffic is totally congested and some basic traffic rules
are unenforced. Residents and others have ask for restrictions and more enforcement. Town and
county officials have problems with the means to enforce any new regulation. Proposals have
been made to have all vendors subject to operating permits or license. This would not only help
regulate vendors, but would give municipalities and counties a source of revenue . Many law
enforcement agencies increase their manpower during the sale. In Cumberland County their is
talk that beginning in September the ground work will begin in dealing with the problem. In the
men time merchants and officials up and down the route are preparing for the biggest yard sale in
history.
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