Interview with Dot Queen Conner

Interview with Dot Queen Conner

Autobiography

Conner, Dorothy Queen, 1940-

Conner, Dorothy Queen, 1940- -- Family

Industries

Internal migrants

Logging

Skagit County (Wash.) -- Genealogy

Skagit and Snohomish Counties in Washington saw an influx of Western North Carolina migrants between 1900 and 1950 settling in Darrington, Sedro-Woolley and Lyman and bringing their customs, culture, and traditions. In 1947 the census shows 500 out of Darrington’s 850 person population were from WNC. Still today, 85% of Darrington’s population has ties to WNC, mostly from Jackson County. As the timber industry depleted resources in Southern Appalachia, many people followed large-scale logging operations out to the Pacific Northwest which came to be known as the Great Migration. In this 2017 interview Dot Queen Conner discusses her father’s time working in Washington and how the Washington migration had an effect on her life.

Conner, Dorothy Queen, 1940-

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 472

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

1940s; 1950s;

2017-03-31

Rhinehart, Becca

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application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35793

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35793

2017-06-05

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Skagit County (Wash.)

Snohomish County (Wash.)

Washington

00:14:52 (sound recording)(duration)

4 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina