Tweetsie Country

Author : Mallory Hope Ferrell
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0932807585

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Tweetsie Country by Mallory Hope Ferrell Pdf

Tweetsie Country can be roughly defined as being bound on the north by the Great Depression, on the east by the state of North Carolina, on the west by Tennessee, and on the south by hope and determination. Here is all the color and charm of the Tweetsie, with its broad gauge aspirations on a narrow gauge budget. It is the story of a unique little railroad that traveled the Blue Ridge country and won the hearts of those who lived there. This handsome pictorial history includes 250 outstanding photographs, plus maps, scale drawings, and three full-color paintings by Mike Pearsall and Casey Holtzinger.

Author : Alice Boggs Lentz
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1570720258

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Tweetsie Adventure by Alice Boggs Lentz Pdf

Marc takes a ride on the Tweetsie train and helps the deputies on Tweetsie's opening day.

Author : Julian Scheer,Elizabeth M. Black
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0932807607

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Tweetsie by Julian Scheer,Elizabeth M. Black Pdf

Tweetsie, officially the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC), was the first railroad to cross the Blue Ridge. This history and legend provides a loving look at the mountains and their people. It is a delightful story of the best loved of all the doughty little narrow gauges—Tweetsie—the little engine that could, and still does!

Author : Donna Gayle Akers,Brian Lambeth
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738567469

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Watauga County by Donna Gayle Akers,Brian Lambeth Pdf

Following the Old Buffalo and Nickajack Trails, Native Americans and early settlers were the first citizens of present-day Watauga County. In 1752, Bishop August Spangenberg, the earliest documented explorer, traveled through this steep terrain and noted the necessity of crawling on hands and knees to stay balanced. Located among the Blue Ridge Mountains, Watauga County grew slowly with few settlers until after the Civil War. The Boone and Blowing Rock Turnpike began to open up the area to commerce and tourists in the 1880s. The establishment of the Watauga Academy in 1899, several ski resorts, and upscale residential developments has changed the landscape. The towns of Boone and Blowing Rock have been listed as some of the best small towns in America and continue to attract new residents and visitors.

Author : John R. Waite,Chris H. Ford
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1570722722

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The Blue Ridge Stemwinder by John R. Waite,Chris H. Ford Pdf

Telling the story of Tweetsie Railroad and the East Tennessee Railway, this book documents the history of the standard gauge ET & WNC after the narrow gauge was gone and is illustrated with many maps and photographs.

Author : Loren M. Wood
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475994452

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Beautiful Land of the Sky by Loren M. Wood Pdf

John Muir is considered to be the supreme icon of western wilderness and preservation. His counterpart in the east is Harlan P. Kelsey, an often obscure and forgotten figure. In Beautiful Land of the Sky, author Loren M. Wood chronicles Kelsey's journey from the humblest of beginnings to national prominence in horticulture and the establishment of national parks in the eastern United States. In this biography, Wood tells how, a century ago, Kelsey was the first to pioneer native plants for the American landscape and a leader in that process; how he was a leading participant in bringing all of America to our native plants in their finest original setting; and how he helped make a reality of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a zenith of horticultural biomass and diversity in America. In addition, this biography explores the parallels in the odysseys of Muir and Kelsey. Though primarily a biography of Kelsey, Wood compares the similarities, differences, and accomplishments of the two men. Including details gathered from more than fifty thousand items in Kelsey's personal files, Beautiful Land of the Sky narrates the inspiring and entertaining story of how the idea of national parks was implemented east of the Mississippi.

Author : Jennifer A. Bauer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625841438

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Roan Mountain by Jennifer A. Bauer Pdf

Roan Mountain’s remarkable ecosystem has enchanted people for centuries, beginning with the first native inhabitants. Then came pioneering settlers, celebrated naturalists like John Muir, hardworking miners and loggers eager to make a living from the land and ambitious businessmen such as John T. Wilder, whose Cloudland Hotel helped make Roan a tourist destination in the late 1870s. Today, conservationists, researchers and nature lovers of all kinds flock here to experience flora and fauna unique to this region of the Appalachians. Preserving Roan’s ecological heritage has proven both a challenge and a triumph for the mountain’s dedicated supporters. In this newly revised and expanded edition, featuring previously unpublished color photography, former Roan Mountain park interpretive specialist Jennifer A. Bauer recounts the fascinating natural and social history of this marvelous highland landscape.

Author : Drew A. Swanson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820353968

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Beyond the Mountains by Drew A. Swanson Pdf

Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region's environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people, and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to connect the region to outside places.

Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Lumber trade
ISBN : 9781329994652

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The Laurel Fork Railway of Carter County, Tennessee by Doug McGuinn Pdf

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 : Matthew C. Bumgarner
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1570720525

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Carolina & N-W by Matthew C. Bumgarner Pdf

With dozens of never-before-published photographs, this history traces the 140-year rise, fall, and rise again of the Carolina & North-Western Railway. Charting the ups and downs of the line’s construction—the politics, squabbling, triumphs, and failures—the chronicle provides a microcosmic overview of American railroading in this story of a single line. Life on the railroad through the Great Depression, World War II, dieselization, and absorption by Southern Railway is explored, punctuated by the real-life experiences of old-timers. Nearly 200 maps and photographs complement the text. Together they deliver an inspiring, historical tale of the Carolina & North-Western.

Author : Randy Johnson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781469627007

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Grandfather Mountain by Randy Johnson Pdf

With its prominent profile recognizable for miles around and featuring vistas among the most beloved in the Appalachians, North Carolina's Grandfather Mountain is many things to many people: an easily recognized landmark along the Blue Ridge Parkway, a popular tourist destination, a site of annual Highland Games, and an internationally recognized nature preserve. In this definitive book on Grandfather, Randy Johnson guides readers on a journey through the mountain's history, from its geological beginnings millennia ago and the early days of exploration to its role in regional development and eventual establishment as a North Carolina state park. Along the way, he shows how Grandfather has changed, and has been changed by, the people of western North Carolina and beyond. To tell the full natural and human story, Johnson draws not only on historical sources but on his rich personal experience working closely on the mountain alongside Hugh Morton and others. The result is a unique and personal telling of Grandfather's lasting significance. The book includes more than 200 historical and contemporary photographs, maps, and a practical guide to hiking the extensive trails, appreciating key plant and animal species and photographing the natural wonder that is Grandfather.

Author : Michael B. Montgomery,Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 3218 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469662558

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Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English by Michael B. Montgomery,Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller Pdf

The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Award–winning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice. Editors Michael B. Montgomery and Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller document the variety of English used in parts of eight states, ranging from West Virginia to Georgia—an expansion of the first edition's geography, which was limited primarily to North Carolina and Tennessee—and include over 10,000 entries drawn from over 2,200 sources. The entries include approximately 35,000 citations to provide the reader with historical context, meaning, and usage. Around 1,600 of those examples are from letters written by Civil War soldiers and their family members, and another 4,000 are taken from regional oral history recordings. Decades in the making, the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English surpasses the original by thousands of entries. There is no work of this magnitude available that so completely illustrates the rich language of the Smoky Mountains and Southern Appalachia.

Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557875900

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The Lopsided Three: A History of Railroading, Logging and Mining in the Holston, Doe and Watauga Valleys of Northeast Tennessee by Doug McGuinn Pdf

Author : Doris Autry
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781503572362

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Stroke of Country by Doris Autry Pdf

The title of my book, Stroke of Country, is something I have dreamed about for years. I have been drawing and writing all my life. I first started painting professionally while working in sewing factories. The extra income helped in raising my family of three lovely daughters, Lakricia, Vicky, and Daisy. I was to have a hysterectomy. Through prayers, I was healed, and about fifteen years later, I gave birth to a son. I named him Jonathan, which means "a gift from God." When Jonathan was eight, I applied for a divorce and the sewing factory was sent overseas about the same time. I attended college for the next four years and earned my BA in business. During this time I was still writing poetry and painting. It has always been a source of joy for me.

Author : Cary Franklin Poole
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0932807879

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A History of Railroading in Western North Carolina by Cary Franklin Poole Pdf

In this work, the most comprehensive of its kind, the author examines in engaging narrative and wonderful photography the development of the area’s complete railroading industry—Class 1 railroads, short lines, industrial and mining roads, and logging lines. Added to the textual histories are more than three hundred photographs and illustrations, including timetables and maps for most of the lines discussed.