Download or read book The Lopsided Three A History of Railroading Logging and Mining in the Holston Doe and Watauga Valleys of Northeast Tennessee written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Laurel Fork Railway of Carter County Tennessee written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis D. Gasteiger, vice president of the new Pittsburgh Lumber Company in Carter County, Tennessee conspired with William Flinn, president of Booth & Flynn, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania construction firm to build a spur connection the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina railway. The ensuing railway connected Elizabethon to Laban, Tennessee and enabled unfinished lumber to the Southern Railway. The Laurel Fork Railroad was incorporated in April of 1910 and abandoned in 1925.
Download or read book The Railroad to Nowhere The Deep Gap Tie Lumber Company Railroad and Other Northwestern North Carolina Business Ventures written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-28 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE RAILROAD TO NOWHERE contains the stories of five northwestern North Carolina business ventures: the Copper Knob Mine (a.k.a. the Gap Creek Mine); "Cowles' Stand" (the A. D. Cowles & Co. Store); the Deep Gap Tie & Lumber Co. RR (the "Railroad to Nowhere"); the V. L. Moretz & Son Lumber Co. (formerly the Deep Gap Tie & Lumber Co.); and Appalachian Ski Mountain (formerly the Blowing Rock Ski Lodge). These businesses were all located in the North Carolina counties of either Watauga or Ashe (BOTH counties, in the case of the Deep Gap Tie & Lumber Co. Railroad). Like all business ventures, some were successful, some were, well, not so successful. (One of the businesses, Appalachian Ski Mountain, continues today, very much alive and healthy.) Even though these business were diverse in their activities - a copper mine, a general store, a railroad, a lumber company, a ski resort - they all can trace their roots back to one man: Calvin J. Cowles.
Download or read book From Tripoli to Timbuktu written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six stories contained in this collection may all be different in their contents, but they all share one common theme: they are all set in North Africa. Scattered throughout the book are images from the author's postcard collection.
Download or read book The Virginia Creeper A Novel written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE "VIRGINIA CREEPER" is a historically accurate (although the author admits having to use his "poetic license" a few times) novel about the rise and fall of the lumber/railroad town of Elkland (present-day Todd), N.C, the rise and fall of a lumber/passenger train, the Virginia-Carolina (aka the "Virginia Creeper"), and the rise and fall of a lumber company (the Hassinger Lumber Company) and the company town (Konnarock, Va.) the lumber company created.
Download or read book Always Been a Rambler written by Josh Beckworth and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter were two of the most influential artists in the early days of country music. Songs they popularized--"Tom Dooley," "Little Maggie," "Handsome Molly," and "Nine Pound Hammer"--are still staples of traditional music. Although the duo sold tens of thousands of records during the 1920s, the details of their lives remain largely unknown. Featuring never before published photographs and interviews with friends and relatives, this book chronicles for the first time the romantic intrigues and tragic deaths that marked their lives and explores the Southern Appalachian culture that shaped their music.
Download or read book Geology of Tennessee written by James Safford and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Appalachia written by Richard B. Drake and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region. The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plantation building going on elsewhere in the South. The growth of a market economy and competition from other agricultural areas of the country sparked an economic decline of the region's rural population at least as early as 1830. The Civil War and the sometimes hostile legislation of Reconstruction made life even more difficult for rural Appalachians. Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of resources. Regional oil, gas, and coal had attracted some industry even before the Civil War, but the postwar years saw an immense expansion of American industry, nearly all of which relied heavily on Appalachian fossil fuels, particularly coal. What was initially a boon to the region eventually brought financial disaster to many mountain people as unsafe working conditions and strip mining ravaged the land and its inhabitants. A History of Appalachia also examines pockets of urbanization in Appalachia. Chemical, textile, and other industries have encouraged the development of urban areas. At the same time, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. The author looks at the process of urbanization as it belies commonly held notions about the region's rural character.
Download or read book Old Growth in the East written by Mary D. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Western North Carolina written by John Preston Arthur and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Watauga County North Carolina written by John Preston Arthur and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2002 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myths of the Cherokee written by James Mooney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 126 myths: sacred stories, animal myths, local legends, many more. Plus background on Cherokee history, notes on the myths and parallels. Features 20 maps and illustrations.
Download or read book The Conquest of a Continent or The Expansion of Races in America written by Madison Grant and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Occoneechee The Maid of the Mystic Lake written by Robert Frank Jarrett and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history has been gleaned from the works of Ethnology by James Mooney and from word of mouth, as related to the author during the past thirty years. In the beginning of historical events, we hear of man in his paradisaical home, located somewhere within the boundaries known as ancient Egypt or Chaldea. His home was far away and his former history shrouded in the darkness of countless centuries of the past, and when we contemplate the remoteness of his ancestry, we become lost in the midst of our own research. When historical light began to flash from the Orient, we find man emerging with some degree of civilization from a barbaric state into the advanced degrees of civilized and enlightened tribes. When the maritime navigator, full of visions and dreams, dared to sail for those hitherto undiscovered shores, now known as America, there lived within the realm a wandering, happy, yet untutored, race of men whom we afterwards called Indians, who dwelt in great numbers along the whole distance from Penobscot Bay south to the everglades of Florida.
Download or read book The Cherokee Nation of Indians written by Charles C. Royce and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following monograph on the history of the Cherokees, with its accompanying maps, is given as an illustration of the character of the work in its treatment of each of the Indian tribes. In the preparation of this book, more particularly in the tracing out of the various boundary lines, much careful attention and research have been given to all available authorities or sources of information. The old manuscript records of the Government, the shelves of the Congressional Library, including its very large collection of American maps, local records, and the knowledge of "old settlers," as well as the accretions of various State historical societies, have been made to pay tribute to the subject.
Download or read book The Heart of the Alleghanies Or Western North Carolina written by Wilbur G. Zeigler and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fort Loudoun in Tennessee 1756 1760 written by Carl Kuttruff and published by . This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Loudoun is located in East Tennessee, on the south side of the Little Tennessee River about four miles east of Vonore, Tennessee. Field crews excavated the site from May 1975-August 1976. A research laboratory was established on the Vanderbilt University campus for storage, processing and analysis of the artifactual materials. Detailed records, drawings, maps, charts and photographs of these findings and of fort reconstruction and interpretation are included in this publication sponsored by the Tennessee Wars Commission.
