This article titled 'Road Work Progressing Nicely' from the June 29, 1926, issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) highlights the importance of highway improvements in western North Carolina. The article reported on the progress of pouring concrete to…
This portrait shot of Robert Lee Madison (1867 - 1954) was taken by the studio of Lindsey & Brown, South Court Place, Asheville, N.C. Madison, a native of Virginia, came to western North Carolina in 1886 to teach at a school in Quallatown. He later…
This photograph of the 'Saw Mill at Smokemont' is featured in the booklet 'Glimpses of the Plant of the Champion Fibre Co., Canton, North Carolina: Souvenir of the Visit of the Cincinnati Commercial Club, May 1922'. The logging community of…
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…
This illustration from Wilbur G. Zeigler and Ben S. Grosscup's late 19th century travel narrative, 'Heart of the Alleghanies'� (p. 173), is captioned, 'Silver Springs. Property of Hon. J. L. Henry.' An advertisement in the book lists the 'Silver…
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…
This photograph of the Smoky Mountain Power Plant at Ela, North Carolina, near Bryson City, N.C., by R.A. Romanes (1896-1978) was dated October 18, 1937. The dam, which is on the Oconaluftee River near its confluence with the Tuckasegee River, was…
This illustration from Thomas H. Lindsey's 'Lindsey's Guide Book to Western North Carolina' (Asheville, N.C.: The Randolph - Kerr Printing Co., 1890) shows 'South Main Street, Looking North' in Asheville, N.C.
The extent of the Champion Fibre Mills may be seen in this perspective taken from a slight elevation. The sender of this postcard view of the large pulp mill noted that the building marked with a '1' showed the boiler house 'exactly as it looks…
The Tennessee & North Carolina Railroad linked the community of Sunburst, N.C., and its large lumber operation to Canton, N.C., located to the north. Sunburst could be reached by rail in about an hour and fifteen minutes. A July 25, 1913,…