Interview with Christine Cole Proctor and James L. Sizemore

Interview with Christine Cole Proctor and James L. Sizemore

Autobiography

Cemeteries

Dams -- Economic aspects

Dams -- Social aspects

Events

Fontana Dam (N.C.)

Graham County (N.C.)

Proctor, Christine Cole

Sizemore, James L. -- Interviews

Swain County (N.C.) -- History

Christine Cole Proctor speaks about how her family and others were moved from their homes so that the Fontana Dam could be built. The dam, completed in 1945 by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), is built on the Little Tennessee River and is located near Fontana Village in Graham County, North Carolina. Cole also mentions the cemeteries that the TVA had intitially acquired from the community but had later neglected to maintain. James L. Sizemore, whose family owned approximately 1,000 acres on the north shore of Fontana Dam, discusses how the building of the dam and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park resulted in widespread displacement of people in Swain and Graham counties. Proctor and Sizemore also mention a road that was supposed to have been built by the Park authorities on land that had been acquired by the Park from the TVA.

Proctor, Christine Cole

Sizemore, James L.

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

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

1900s (Decade); 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s;

2009-11-20

Atzenhoffer, T. Rhydon

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audio/mp3; application/pdf;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35513

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2014-12-04

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Graham County (N.C.)

Swain County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

00:55:52 (sound recording)(duration)

10 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina