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Author | : Terry Ruscin |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439658242 |
Download A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails and Air Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Traveling across the treacherous and diverse landscape of western North Carolina is a challenge historically met with human ingenuity. Mountain traces of Native Americans, dusty stagecoach routes and vital railroads lined the region. Asheville installed the state's first electric streetcars. Intrepid young men and women continued North Carolina's aviation legacy. The Buncombe Turnpike helped tame the Blue Ridge Mountains, allowing livestock drives to reach markets in South Carolina. Author Terry Ruscin reveals the visionaries and risk-takers who paved the way to the "Land of the Sky" in a wondrous examination of western North Carolina transportation history.
Author | : North Carolina. Department of Transportation. Public Affairs Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : North Carolina |
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Download The North Carolina Historical Review Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Cary Franklin Poole |
Publisher | : The Overmountain Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780932807878 |
Download A History of Railroading in Western North Carolina Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Ronald C. Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2017-02-20 |
Genre | : Canton (N.C.) |
ISBN | : 9781946812551 |
Download If Rails Could Talk Volume 1 Logging the North Carolina Great Smoky Mountains Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Volume 1 of "If Rails Could Talk..." is the first of an planned eight volume series about the railroad logging along the Blue Ridge and adjoining North Carolina Smoky Mountains. In volume 1, there are the stories of logging the Big Creek watershed by rail. Located close to the Tennessee state line in northern Haywood County near the present day location of Waterville, NC on I 40, the village of Mt. Sterling and lumber town of Crestmont were the centers of activity for four different lumber companies. Histories of several logging companies are featured; Laurel Fork Lumber, Haddock-France Lumber, the Cataloochee Company, Pigeon River Lumber, Champion Lumber, Champion Fibre, and finally Suncrest Lumber. The book contains over 70 photographs, many published for the first time. Another feature of the book is a set of topographic maps showing the entire railroad grade on Big Creek. Author Ron Sullivan, his wife Marilyn, and hiking partner Jerry Ledford spent many days hiking the old grades, most of them off of established trails and roads. They carefully used a GPS to trace the rail grades and transfer them to USGS topo maps. Printed on 100 lb. gloss paper, spiral bound, edited by Gerald Ledford
Author | : Alan Coleman |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008-03-03 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1439635447 |
Download Railroads of North Carolina Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since the opening of the first permanent railway in 1833, hundreds of railroad companies have operated in North Carolina. Rail transportation, faster and more efficient than other methods of the era, opened new markets for the products of North Carolina's farms, factories, and mines. Over the years, North Carolina rail companies have ranged in size from well-engineered giants like the Southern Railway to temporary logging railroads like the Hemlock. Cross ties and rails were laid across almost every conceivable terrain: tidal marshes, sand hills, rolling piedmont, and mountain grades. Vulnerable to the turbulent and unregulated economies of the day, few railroad companies escaped reorganizations and receiverships during their corporate lives, often leaving tangled and contradictory histories in their passing.
Author | : Jim Toman |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780873385473 |
Download Horse Trails to Regional Rails Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The history of public transportation in Greater Cleveland spans two centuries. From the opening of the Ohio and Erie Canal to the opening of the new waterfront rapid transit, this book traces the changing contours of a metropolitan area and the modes of transport available to its public.
Author | : Roderick Hull Craib |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Download A Picture History of U.S. Transportation, on Rails, Roads, and Rivers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Walter R. Turner |
Publisher | : North Carolina Division of Archives & History |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
Download Paving Tobacco Road Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This paperback book traces the development of the state agency responsible for North Carolina's highways from its beginnings in 1915 as the North Carolina State Highway Commission through the first years of the twenty-first century. One chapter is devoted to other forms of transportation, such as the state's ferry, bicycle, and rail programs. The author identifies many of the leaders, both political and professional, who helped to create North Carolina's entire transportation network.
Author | : Michael E. Ferlise |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781403374516 |
Download The History of Transportation in New Jersey Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle