TAG Corner
These routes cross a corner of Georgia (centered on the town of Trenton), which, because of the terrain, was only accessible by way of Tennessee or Alabama until 1939. One also crosses this corner of Georgia briefly when traveling "west" from Chattanooga to Nashville on Interstate 24.
The term TAG Corner seems to find the most use among devotees of caving, although cavers usually just call the area "TAG". Because of the limestone geology of the Cumberland Plateau, the area is one of the finest for caving in the United States. TAG is especially known for vertical caving due to the depth of many of the caves.
The abbreviation may have originally been used by the TAG Line, a railroad which operated in the region from 1892 to 1971. It may also come from a group of cavers calling themselves TAG in the 1960s.
References
- ^ "TAG FAQ, tagcaving.com". Archived from the original on February 12, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
- ^ "TAG Fall Cave In". Retrieved October 31, 2020 – via Facebook.
- ^ "TAG Line Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad". ngeorgia.com. Retrieved December 2, 2017.
- ^ "TAG FAQ, tagcaving.com". Archived from the original on February 12, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2010.