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,…
This letter from O.B. Coward, Sylva, North Carolina, to William Estes, dated January 22, 1889, concerns an offer from Coward to purchase cattle from Estes. The letterhead for the Sylva business of Hall, Smith & Company noted that it dealt in general…
In its February 19, 1915, issue, the Jackson County Journal (Sylva, N.C.), ran an article entitled 'New Enterprise at Andrews' which described the formation of the Graham County Lumber Company in Andrew, N.C. According to the Journal, the company…
This postcard view of the 'Kenilworth Inn, Asheville, N.C.' was postmarked from Asheville on June 7, 1904. The hotel was built in the early 1890s. Fire destroyed the inn in April 1909.
The 'Nantahala Folio - North Carolina - Tennessee' of the 'Geologic Atlas of the United States' (Washington: U.S. Geological Survey, 1907) captioned this picture 'Surface of Murphy Marble, Stripped for Quarrying; 2 Miles Southwest of Tomotla,…
This topographic map titled 'Mount Mitchell Quadrangle,' issued in 1902 and reprinted in 1920 by the U.S. Geological Survey (Washington D.C.: Department of the Interior), shows the area around Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina. Other features near Mt.…
In 1907 the Jackson County, N.C., entrepreneur and industrialist C.J. Harris built a small power plant near his Dillsboro, N.C., home in order to generate electricity for his personal use and business ventures. He subsequently expanded this…
This advertisement for Eagle's Nest and White Sulphur Springs, two of the premier hotels in Waynesville, N.C., appeared in the Greater Western North Carolina Association's Information to Visitors Concerning Greater Western North Carolina (Asheville,…
This panorama of Waynesville from the Greater Western North Carolina Association's tour guide Information to Visitors Concerning Greater Western North Carolina (Asheville, N.C.: Inland Press, 1913) underscores its mountain setting. The Haywood…
The Greater Western North Carolina Association's tour guide, Information to Visitors Concerning Greater Western North Carolina (Asheville, N.C.: Inland Press, 1913), described the Swannanoa-Berkeley Hotel, in Asheville, N.C., as being '[a]mong the…