South Fork of Hominy Creek

South Fork of Hominy Creek

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This view of a small mountain valley community was taken near present-day Chestnut Mountain Road in Canton, North Carolina. Written on the reverse is “137-1. South Fork of Hominy Creek from Third narrows looking south near Canton, N.C. June 17, 1931. Martha E. Norburn, W. 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

1931-06-17

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eng

StillImage

65095

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Haywood County (N.C.)

3.5" x 5.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia