Interview with Tanya Williamson

Interview with Tanya Williamson

Cataloochee (N.C.) -- Social life and customs

Depressions -- 1929

Eminent domain

Explosions

Persons displaced by eminent domain

Williamson, Tanya

Tanya Rowland Williamson discusses her family connection to Cataloochee Valley and her ancestor’s experience being displaced in the 1930s when the area became part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She shares stories of her grandparents’ struggling through the Great Depression and recounts how her grandmother, Ruby Caldwell, and her family died after an explosion occurred in Waynesville in 1942. She also shares her own stories of visiting the Park to clean graves, hike Caldwell Fork, and take her own children to the Cataloochee area, where she feels a strong connection.

Williamson, Tanya

WCU Oral History Collection - Introduction to Oral History

2023-03-23

Andonovska, Aia

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

sound recordings

transcripts

eng

Sound

Text

71794

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/71794

Cataloochee (N.C.)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)

Haywood County (N.C.)

0:30:34(duration)

18(pages)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina