Interview with Wylce McGaha about life in Cataloochee

Interview with Wylce McGaha about life in Cataloochee

Agriculture

Cataloochee (N.C.)

Cataloochee (N.C.) -- Social life and customs

Families

Farm life

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)

Mountain people

Schools

This 93-page manuscript is titled “Interview with Wylce McGaha.” The 1973 interview is recalls life in Cataloochee. The history was collected as part of the Cataloochee History Project that collected photographs, stories, and oral histories about families who lived in the Cataloochee Valley. Today’s Cataloochee Valley is within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. While, in general, the Great Smoky Mountains region was sparsely populated, the Cataloochee Valley remained an exception. By 1900, the population of Cataloochee had grown to 1,000 residents living in hundreds of log and frame homes.

Easterby, Sam

Sanderson, Perry

Cataloochee History Project

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

1973-04-12

McGaha, Wylce

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pdf;

transcripts

interviews

eng

Text

25821

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/25821

2015-09-22

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Haywood County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Cataloochee (N.C.)

11' x 8.5"(dimension)

93 pages(pages)

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