Mr. R. C. Fordham of Council, N.C., saw filer and woods foreman. This woods operation is being carried out by the Thomas Lumber Company of Whiteville. This woods operation is near Lake Waccamaw.
A hand drawn map of Sunburst, NC, Champion Fibre Company's planned logging community. In 1911, Sunburst moved 4 miles downstream and renamed the upstream site Spruce, currently known as the Sunburst Campground. Map shows location of homes, buildings,…
A view of Sunburst, NC with a mountain view in the background. A school building used by the Biltmore Forest School can be seen on the left and a line of homes can be seen on the right. A stream is running in front of the school house with a…
Big Poplar cut with cross-cut saw by contractor for Babcock Lumber & Land Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., in Big Fodder Stack Cove, on Slick Rock Creek, 1918. The logs were sawed into lumber at Vose, near Maryville, Tennessee. Printed sign at end of log…
'My dog, Freya, who after my (Schenck) departure, ran to the railway station, where she was stroke by a motorcar. My friend Biru Rieger took this photo before he shot her. (Winter 1895)'
Land slides on steep hillsides below Old Fort. This land has been heavily lumbered and there is a dense young growth of pines and hardwood from ten to twenty years old beneath the few old seed trees.
An alluvial bottom and bend in Cave Creek across which the creek swept in the freshet of 1901. Soil was entirely removed, and the land was left unfit for cultivation.