Interview with Edna and Troy Whiteside

Interview with Edna and Troy Whiteside

Autobiography

Dams -- Economic aspects

Dams -- Social aspects

Events

Fontana Dam (N.C.)

Swain County (N.C.) -- History

Whiteside, Edna Duvall, 1934- -- Interviews

Whiteside, Troy Lee, Jr., 1935-2020 -- Interviews

Troy and Edna Whiteside talk about the ambivalent feelings that Swain County residents had towards the construction of the Fontana Dam. While the dam's construction resulted in people losing land in return for inadequate compensation and having to relocate, it also brought jobs to the area. The largest dam of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system, Fontana Dam is built on the Little Tennessee River and was completed in 1945.

Whiteside, Edna Duvall, 1934-

Whiteside, Troy Lee, Jr., 1935-

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

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

1930s; 1940s;

2009-11-25

Atzenhoffer, T. Rhydon

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

audio/mp3; application/pdf;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35519

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35519

2014-12-04

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Swain County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:30:41 (sound recording)(duration)

6 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina