Hominy Creek Gorge

Hominy Creek Gorge

Electric lines -- Poles and towers

Landscapes

Mountains

Railroad tracks

Hominy Creek follows the railroad tracks with a homesite on the left and pole lines along the tracks. On the reverse is written “133-4. Hominy Creek Gorge Buncombe County line looking east. May 1, 1931. M.C. Morse.” The photographers attributed to this series of images are W. C. Morse, visiting professor of Geology, and Martha E. Norburn, graduate student in Geology, both at the University of North Carolina. Norburn wrote her doctoral dissertation, “The Influence of the Physiographic Features of Western North Carolina on the Settlement and Development of the Region” in 1932 under the direction of Collier Cobb. Ten years later she wrote “Asheville: In Land of the Sky” under her married name Martha Elizabeth Norburn Mead.

Mead, Martha Norburn

Norburn - Robertson - Thomson Families Collection

1931-05-01

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photographs

eng

StillImage

65091

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

3.5" x 5.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia