This memorial to Olive Dame Campbell was featured in a 1954 issue of Mountain Life & Work, a quarterly periodical produced by the Council of Southern Mountain Workers (formerly the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers), an organization founded...
The Highland Highlights was a newsletter "published every once in a while by the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild." It usually gave members news from the shops, information from and about Guild meetings, tips and reminders, as well as news of...
An article titled 'Town of Whittier Is Abolished By Assembly Bill'� appeared in the January 31, 1933, issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.). An article in the January 19, 1933, issue of a separate newspaper, the 'Jackson County Journal'�...
This 1920 issue of the Southern Industrial Educational Association's Quarterly Magazine includes several articles related to mountain life and the work of settlement schools in the Appalachian region. The lead article focuses on "The Tragedy of...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
Dillsboro (N.C.); Electric utilities -- North Carolina -- Jackson County
The Ruralite (Sylva, N.C.) reported on improvements in the operation of the Dillsboro and Sylva Electric Company in its January 13, 1931, issue in an article titled 'Electric Company Installs Some New Machinery.'� C.J. Harris, a prominent...
Hydroelectric power plants -- North Carolina -- Swain County;
The August 13, 1929 issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.), headlined this article entitled '5 New Hydro-Electric Projects Planned for Nantahala Section'� that detailed plans for five new hydroelectric projects on the Little Tennessee River, the...
This article titled 'Road Work Progressing Nicely' from the June 29, 1926, issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) highlights the importance of highway improvements in western North Carolina. The article reported on the progress of pouring concrete...
The August 10, 1926, issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) ran an article titled 'Sells Store at Addie.'� The article announced that William Houston Snyder (1881-1956), also known as Hute Snyder, had sold his stock of general merchandise in his...
Paper mills -- North Carolina --Jackson County; Sylva Paper Board Company (Sylva, N.C.)
The January 10, 1928, issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) contained an article 'Work Started on Big Paper Mill'� concerning construction of the Sylva Paper Board Company's plant by the Mead Corporation. The paperboard company's operations were...
The June 29, 1926 issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) ran an article titled 'Makes Pictures in Great Smokies' noting that the photographer George Masa (1881-1933) visited Sylva, North Carolina on his way to rendezvous in Bryson City, N.C., with...
Railroads -- North Carolina; Lumber trade -- North Carolina; Bemis Lumber Company
An article from the January 24, 1928 issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) entitled 'Bemis Firm to Top Lumber Belt'� indicated that the Bemis Lumber Company, under its subsidiary operation of the Graham County Railway, planned an extension of its...
Hydroelectric power plants -- North Carolina -- Swain County;
Among the featured headlines the August 27, 1929 issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) was the article 'Power Co. Will Build Nantahala Dam this Fall,'� reporting on plans of the newly formed Nantahala Power and Light Company for a hydroelectric...
In its February 19, 1915, issue, the Jackson County Journal (Sylva, N.C.), ran an article entitled 'New Enterprise at Andrews' which described the formation of the Graham County Lumber Company in Andrew, N.C. According to the Journal, the company...
This advertisement for Eagle's Nest and White Sulphur Springs, two of the premier hotels in Waynesville, N.C., appeared in the Greater Western North Carolina Association's Information to Visitors Concerning Greater Western North Carolina...
In 1901 C.J. Harris, a prominent industrialist in Jackson County, N.C., started the Harris Tannery in Sylva, N.C. The report by J.S. Holmes entitled Forest Conditions in Western North Carolina (Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, 1911) noted...
The 'Cherokee Herald' (Murphy, N.C.) newspaper in its June 17, 1874, issue ran an advertisement that asserted, 'It has been ascertained that one and half bushels of corn ground at the Tomotla Mills will last a family seven days, whereas the same...
This picture of the Whittier, N.C., railway depot possibly dates from 1909. When enlarged, the 'Train Schedule' sign, seen at the far right of the building, appears to have a handwritten date of July 16, 1909. The 'Whittier' sign over the doorway...
The front page of the 'Cherokee Scout' (Murphy, North Carolina) for November 18, 1927, announced the opening of a new Cherokee County courthouse in its article 'Formally Open Cherokee's New Courthouse.'� A fire in 1926 had destroyed a previous...
Schools -- North Carolina -- Cherokee County; Marble School (Marble, N.C.)
This article from the November 18, 1927, issue of the 'Cherokee Scout' (Murphy, North Carolina) is titled 'Marble School Honor Roll.'� The 'Honor Roll for third month Marble School'� lists the elementary school grades for the first, second,...
