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 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…
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. …
In 1901 C.J. Harris, a prominent industrialist in Jackson County, N.C., started the Harris Tannery in Sylva, N.C. The report by J.S. Holmes entitled Forest Conditions in Western North Carolina (Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, 1911) noted…
The booklet by John Nolen titled 'Asheville City Plan: MCMXXII' (Asheville, North Carolina: s.n., 1925) contains map of the 'Main Thoroughfares' of Asheville, North Carolina. The full credit line reads, 'Asheville, North Carolina. Map of City…
This picture from the publication issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, 'Message from the President of the United States Transmitting a Report of the Secretary of Agriculture in Relation to the Forests, Rivers and Mountains of the…
This picture of 'Balsam Gap' is from the booklet 'Woman's Christian Temperance Union Southern Assembly and School of Methods, Waynesville, N.C., 1892' (Philadelphia, Penn: Levytype Co., 1892). However, there is a different caption in the lower…
This image from a multiple-view postcard advertising the Balsam Inn's 1909 season depicted the Balsam, N.C., railroad depot along the Murphy Branch of the Southern Railway, located near the border between Jackson County and Haywood County, North…
This fold-out postcard for the Balsam Inn, built in 1905 - 1908, in the community of Balsam, N.C., contained multiple views of the inn and extended descriptions. The hotel was situated near the depot of the Murphy Branch of Southern Railway, a…