Headwaters of the Broad River, Hickory Nut Gap

Headwaters of the Broad River, Hickory Nut Gap

Hickorynut Gap (N.C.)

Rivers -- North Carolina, Western

This photograph was taken by Ignatius Watsworth Brock (1866-1950) who won the 1903 award of the Photographer’s Association of Virginia and the Carolinas for best landscape photographs. Brock later shortened his name to “Nace” and eventually to “N. Brock”—the signature by which he was widely known and which appears on this photograph as well. The photograph is part of a collection documenting the activities of the Appalachian National Park Association. The Association, founded in 1899, played a key role in the movement for the establishment of a national park in the Southern Appalachians. George S. Powell was the Association’s first president and Asheville physician Dr. Chase P. Ambler (1865-1932) was the secretary. Ambler deposited this collection in 1929 to the State Archives of North Carolina at Raleigh from where they were moved in 2012 to the Western Regional Archives located in Asheville, North Carolina.

Brock, Nace, 1866-1950

Appalachian National Park Association Records

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

circa 1901

Appalachian National Park Association

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2013-10-01

Reproduced with permission of North Carolina Western Regional Archives;

Buncombe County (N.C.)

8" x 10"(dimension)

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