Home on Everett Street

Home on Everett Street

Buildings

Corn

Crops

Wire fencing

A crop of corn is growing behind the building located on the west side of Everett Street which belonged to L. J. Moody from 1925 – 1927, McKinley Edwards from 1927-1931 and then J. H. and Dessie Coffey, who moved into the second-floor apartment. In 1940 the building housed Belk's department store. B 463 is written on the negative. The photographer, “Doc” Kelly Bennett (1890-1974), was a prominent pharmacist in Swain County, NC. Owner of the Bryson City Drug Company, Bennett served as alderman and mayor of Bryson City, on the Swain County Board of Education, as well as several terms as NC State Senator and NC State Representative. He participated in numerous other initiatives and organizations. Known as the “Apostle of the Smokies,” Bennett was an instrumental figure in the movement to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He was also an avid photographer, skillfully documenting a wide variety of people, places, and events in Swain County and the surrounding area.

Bennett, Kelly, 1890-1974

Kelly Bennett Collection

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negatives (photographs)

eng

StillImage

72263

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/72263

Bryson City (N.C.)

Swain County (N.C.)

3.5" x 5.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia