Download or read book There s Copper in Them Thar Hills Copper Mining in Watauga Ashe and Alleghany Counties of North Carolina written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wilmington, North Carolina firm of Bannister, Cowan & Company, in its glowing report titled, just as glowingly, The Resources of North Carolina: Its Natural Wealth, Condition, and Advantages, as Existing in 1869. Presented to the Capitalists and People of the Central and Northern States, wrote that "[t]he three most noted copper mines in the northwestern part of the State are the Elk Knob, Peach Bottom, and Ore Knob. ... In the southeast corner of Ashe County is another mine of some note, known as Gap Creek [aka the Copper Knob Mine]." THERE'S COPPER IN THEM THAR HILLS! contains the histories of those four mines, which, as Bannister, Cowan & Company pointed out in its report, were all located in the mountains of northwest North Carolina: the Elk Knob Mine in Watauga County, the Copper Knob Mine and the Ore Knob Mine in Ashe County, and the Peach Bottom Mine in Alleghany County.

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 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 the Appalachian Ski Mountain (formerly the Blowing Rock Ski Lodge). These businesses were all located in the North Carolina counties of either Watauga or Ashe ... they all can trace their roots back to one man: Calvin J. Cowles."--Back cover

Download or read book Investigation of the Ore Knob Copper Mine Ashe County N C written by T. J. Ballard and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 22 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 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 From Tripoli to Timbuktu written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Geological Visit to the Virginia Copper Region written by Richard O. Currey and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Copper Mines of Lake Superior written by Ossian Doolittle Ashley and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Investigation of the Scarlet Copper Mine Randolph County N C written by Mitchell H. Kline and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cliff America s First Great Copper Mine written by Donald Chaput and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conrad Hill Copper and Gold Deposit Davidson County N C written by T. J. Ballard and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports on the Gibson Hill Gold and Copper Mine of North Carolina written by Gibson Hill Gold and Copper Mine and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stone Hill Copper Mine Cleburne and Randolph Counties Ala written by Hugh Davidson Pallister and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gold Mines in North Carolina written by John Hairr and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first gold discovery in the United States occurred in 1799 when young Conrad Reed went fishing in Little Meadow Creek in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. The 17-pound nugget he found was used by his family as a doorstop until they figured out what the strange rock was. This chance discovery set off the first gold rush in the nation's history. For more than a century, men extracted gold from the rolling hills and valleys of the North Carolina piedmont, as well as from the high peaks and rugged mountains of the western part of the state. Prior to the California Gold Rush of 1849, North Carolina led the nation in production of this precious metal and was the largest gold-producing state in the South well into the 20th century.

Download or read book Report on the Copper and Silver lead Mine of Canton Mining Company at Canton Cherokee County Georgia written by Charles Upham Shepard and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Iron and Copper and where They are Found written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Copper Mines of Lake Superior written by Thomas Arthur Rickard and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: