The October 16, 1928, edition of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) featured an article about the Royle-Pilkington Company, a textile manufacturing plant, entitled 'Hazelwood Plant To Employ Three Hundred.' Hazelwood, North Carolina was an incorporated…
An article from the January 24, 1928 issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) entitled 'Bemis Firm to Top Lumber Belt'� indicated that the Bemis Lumber Company, under its subsidiary operation of the Graham County Railway, planned an extension of its…
The January 10, 1928, issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) contained an article "Work Started on Big Paper Mill", concerning construction of the Sylva Paper Board Company's plant by the Mead Corporation. The paperboard company's…
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 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…
The August 13, 1929 issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.), headlined this article entitled '5 New Hydro-Electric Projects Planned for Nantahala Section'� that detailed plans for five new hydroelectric projects on the Little Tennessee River, the…
This view of the 'Fontana Dam Project'� from the report by the Tennessee Valley Authority, 'The Fontana Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Fontana Project'� (Washington: United…
In this photograph an unidentified couple poses next to a 1930 or 1931 Chevrolet Roadster. The photograph was taken near the location of the C.J. Harris Hospital in Sylva, North Carolina. At that time the hospital was located above the Jackson…
A handwritten caption at the bottom of this photograph identifies it as the 'Almond High'� school building in Swain County, North Carolina. The building was completed in the Almond, N.C., community in the mid-1920s and, with the improvement of roads…
A handwritten caption at the bottom of this photograph identifies it as the 'Almond High'� school building in Swain County, North Carolina. The brick high school building had been completed in the Almond, N.C., community in the mid-1920s. …