The handwritten caption on the reverse of this photograph reads 'Dr. B.B. Meroney - late 1800s - Hiwassee River, Murphy, N.C.' A separate notation indicates that the photograph was 'Taken May 1st 1895.' Murphy, the county seat of Cherokee County,…
The portrait photograph of F.A. Luck, Jr., was dated 1900. Luck was the publisher and later also editor, along with his Father, F.A. Luck, Sr., of the 'Tuckaseige Democrat' (Sylva, N.C.) newspaper in the late 1880s and early 1890s.
This page from the hotel register of the Penland House at Pigeon River, now Canton, N.C., was dated June 12 and 13, 1883. According to the names on the register, the hotel drew a clientele from a variety of areas. Included are individuals who…
A handwritten caption on the reverse of this photograph identified it as the 'Waynesville Dispensary [Drug Store],' in Waynesville, N.C. A large stock of items appears in the shelving cabinets on either side of the store. The walls and ceiling lamp…
This photograph, entitled 'From Junaluska,' shows the view available from Junaluska Mountain, in the vicinity of Hazelwood and Waynesville, N.C. According to the 'North Carolina Gazetteer' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968),…
In this photograph, a diverse crowd of men, women, and children pose in front of the Yankee Hipps Hotel in Clyde, N.C. According to the book 'Haywood Homes and History' (Hazelwood, N.C.: Oliver Scriptorium, 1993; Waynesville, N.C.: D. Mills, Inc.,…
The 'North Carolina Historical Review' (July 1997) identified this photograph as a Confederate veterans reunion that W.W. Stringfield, himself a veteran and the owner of the Haywood White Sulphur Springs Hotel, arranged in Waynesville, N.C., in the…
In this photograph dated 1903, Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Luck, Sr., of Jackson County, N.C., are seen in a carriage. In the late 1880s and early 1890s, Luck, Sr., was the business manager of the 'Tuckaseige Democrat' (Sylva, N.C.) newspaper. In 1890 he was…
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…