The Lopsided Three A History Of Railroading Logging And Mining In The Holston Doe And Watauga Valleys Of Northeast Tennessee

Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557875900
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lopsided Three: A History of Railroading, Logging and Mining in the Holston, Doe and Watauga Valleys of Northeast Tennessee written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329994655
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laurel Fork Railway of Carter County, Tennessee written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis D. Gasteiger, vice president of the new Pittsburgh Lumber Company in Carter County, Tennessee conspired with William Flinn, president of Booth & Flynn, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania construction firm to build a spur connection the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina railway. The ensuing railway connected Elizabethon to Laban, Tennessee and enabled unfinished lumber to the Southern Railway. The Laurel Fork Railroad was incorporated in April of 1910 and abandoned in 1925.

Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359818706
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railroad to Nowhere: The Deep Gap Tie & Lumber Company Railroad and Other Northwestern North Carolina Business Ventures written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The railroad to nowhere contains the stories of five northwestern North Carolina business ventures: the Copper Knob Mine (a.k.a. the Gap Creek Mine), "Cowles' Stand" (the A.D. Cowles & Co. Store), the Deep Gap Tie & Lumber Co. RR (the "Railroad to Nowhere"), the V.L. Moretz & Son Lumber Co. (formerly the Deep Gap Tie & Lumber Co.), and the Appalachian Ski Mountain (formerly the Blowing Rock Ski Lodge). These businesses were all located in the North Carolina counties of either Watauga or Ashe ... they all can trace their roots back to one man: Calvin J. Cowles."--Back cover

Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359337198
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Tripoli to Timbuktu written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387954288
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book The "Virginia Creeper": A Novel written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE "VIRGINIA CREEPER" is a historically accurate (although the author admits having to use his "poetic license" a few times) novel about the rise and fall of the lumber/railroad town of Elkland (present-day Todd), N.C, the rise and fall of a lumber/passenger train, the Virginia-Carolina (aka the "Virginia Creeper"), and the rise and fall of a lumber company (the Hassinger Lumber Company) and the company town (Konnarock, Va.) the lumber company created.

Author : Josh Beckworth
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631867
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Always Been a Rambler written by Josh Beckworth and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  GB. Grayson and Henry Whitter were two of the most influential artists in the early days of country music. Songs they popularized—“Tom Dooley,” “Little Maggie,” “Handsome Molly,” and “Nine Pound Hammer”—are still staples of traditional music. Although the duo sold tens of thousands of records during the 1920s, the details of their lives remain largely unknown. Featuring never before published photographs and interviews with friends and relatives, this book chronicles for the first time the romantic intrigues and tragic deaths that marked their lives and explores the Southern Appalachian culture that shaped their music.

Author : Pamela A. Conners
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
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Download or read book The Sugar Pine Railway written by Pamela A. Conners and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard B. Drake
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813137934
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Appalachia written by Richard B. Drake and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region. The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plantation building going on elsewhere in the South. The growth of a market economy and competition from other agricultural areas of the country sparked an economic decline of the region's rural population at least as early as 1830. The Civil War and the sometimes hostile legislation of Reconstruction made life even more difficult for rural Appalachians. Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of resources. Regional oil, gas, and coal had attracted some industry even before the Civil War, but the postwar years saw an immense expansion of American industry, nearly all of which relied heavily on Appalachian fossil fuels, particularly coal. What was initially a boon to the region eventually brought financial disaster to many mountain people as unsafe working conditions and strip mining ravaged the land and its inhabitants. A History of Appalachia also examines pockets of urbanization in Appalachia. Chemical, textile, and other industries have encouraged the development of urban areas. At the same time, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. The author looks at the process of urbanization as it belies commonly held notions about the region's rural character.

Author : George S. Outlaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flow Duration and Low Flows of Tennessee Streams Through 1992 written by George S. Outlaw and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Safford
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1458500403
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geology of Tennessee written by James Safford and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: