Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain) -- Pictorial works; Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain) -- Description and travel; Toll roads -- North Carolina -- Mitchell, Mount (Mountain) -- Pictorial works;
The Mount Mitchell Motor Road was built over an existing route that went up Mt. Mitchell. Originally constructed as a logging rail line around the turn of the century, in 1921, the railroad track was replaced by an automobile toll road. The...
Lake Junaluska (N.C.); Lake Junaluska Methodist Church Assembly
The cover of the 1933 program of 'The Junaluskan,' published by the Lake Junaluska Methodist Church of Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, features a view of the lake in the foreground and mountains in the distance. The 1933 program listed not only...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This photograph has a handwritten caption that states, 'This is the the [sic] Passenger Train from Proctor to Ritter with Charley Wilson, Engineer, G.J. Calhoun, Conductor.' Granville Calhoun, seen at the rear of the train in this photograph, was...
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...
Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain); Railroad stations -- North Carolina -- Yancey County
A handwritten caption identifies this photograph as 'Railroad station top of Mt. Mitchell.' On the side of the rail cars is the wording 'Mt. Mitchell Railroad.'� In the 1910s a logging railroad on Mt. Mitchell in Yancey County, North Carolina,...
This photograph of Fred Otto Scroggs was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934. Scroggs ran the general store in Brasstown, N.C. and was instrumental in organizing the local community support for the creation of the John C. Campbell Folk School in...
This is a transcript of an interview of blacksmith Daniel Boone VI conducted by Edward Dupuy in 1965. Boone had a forge in both Banner Elk and Spruce Pine; he produced and sold metalwork during the Craft Revival period. In this interview, Boone...
This family of pigs was made by Louis Brown probably in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Brown was part of the family who ran Brown Pottery in Arden, North Carolina. As a child, Brown made pig families from scrap clay at the pottery. When Mrs....
"The Ruralite" (Sylva, N.C.) for October 8, 1935, ran this article titled “Indian Festival May Be Held in Tourist Season” about the Cherokee Indian Fair in Cherokee, North Carolina, noting that “[i]t was announced on the closing day of the...
