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, third,…
An article titled 'Hotel Gordon to Open July 6th'� from the June 27, 1929, issue of the 'Mountaineer' (Waynesville, North Carolina) announced plans for dances accompanied by an orchestra at two of Waynesville's hotels, the Hotel Gordon and Hotel…
This panoramic view is identified in the lower right margin as the "Sylva Tanning Company, Sylva, N.C." It has a credit line of "Photo by Sherrill Studio, Asheville, N.C." The intertwined importance of western North Carolina's timber resources and…
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, had…
This photograph shows the new school building in Alarka, North Carolina, a community in Swain County, N.C. The decision to build a new school in Alarka provided the opportunity to consolidate smaller schools into the new structure through the use of…
This section of the 'North Carolina Highway's' map for 1939, issued by the North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission (Raleigh, N.C.), features western North Carolina. The map shows Cheoah Lake at Tapoco, N.C., Lake Santeetlah near…
This Carolina Mountain Club 'Trip Report' of an excursion to Roan Mountain notes that the roundtrip by automobile from Asheville, North Carolina, was 123.8 miles, with an additional 18 miles covered by foot. The total time for the trip was two hours…
A notation in the lower left corner of this photograph identifies it as the store of the 'Whitaker Bros., Andrews, N.C.' A handwritten note on the reverse of the photograph names the two men as (left to right) Harve Whitaker and Zeb Whitaker and…
This photograph has a handwritten notation on the reverse which identifies it as 'Group at Baptist Church, Clyde, N.C., 1928-1929.' The photograph shows over one hundred and twenty-five men, women, and children posed in front of the church building.…
This photograph offers a rooftop view of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's procession down Main Street of Sylva, North Carolina. President Roosevelt traveled by automobile from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Asheville, N.C. on a tour of the Great Smoky…