Interview with Blind Sam Sutton about Caldwell Fork

Interview with Blind Sam Sutton about Caldwell Fork

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Cataloochee (N.C.)

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This 56-page manuscript is titled “Interview with Blind Sam Sutton,” a 92-year-old former resident of Cataloochee. The 1973 interview recalls life on Caldwell Fork. 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

Richardson, George

Cataloochee History Project

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

1973-04-18

Sutton, Sam

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transcripts

interviews

eng

Text

25848

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/25848

2015-09-22

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Haywood County (N.C.)

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

Cataloochee (N.C.)

11' x 8.5"(dimension)

56 pages(pages)

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