Depiction of gnomes working at a grist mill in the rock garden, Rock City Gardens, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, USA, c. 1955


Rock City Gardens, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, a community called Fairyland was founded on top of mountain in 1924 by Garnet and Frieda Carter and included first ever miniature golf course called Tom Thumb Golf, a rock garden with imported German gnomes opened as an attraction and Fairyland Caverns featured elves perched on rock shelves and fairytale story depictions, here tableau in rock garden of gnomes working at a grist mil - an amusing vintage nineteen fifties photograph


Size: 5179px × 3238px
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Photo credit: © M&N / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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