Dolly Parton is featured on the Wedding Walk in Ringgold, Ga.Country music superstar Dolly Parton and husband Carl Dean picked Ringgold, Ga., as the place to get married on May 30, 1966, partly because Dean lived on Missionary Ridge in his youth and knew about Ringgold.
“I also liked the idea of ‘rings of gold’ — Ringgold. I thought that sounded like a good sign,” Parton said.
It must have been, because 47 years after the Rev. Don Duvall performed the ceremony at Ringgold Baptist Church, the couple’s 47-year union is still going.
Visitors to downtown Ringgold can read that and more about the history of Parton’s wedding on an interpretive sign that was placed recently in front of the church at the corner of Nashville and Cleveland streets.
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