The Heritage of Ashe County, North Carolina
Author | : Bernard Goss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Ashe County (N.C.) |
ISBN | : 9780894592256 |
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Author | : Bernard Goss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Ashe County (N.C.) |
ISBN | : 9780894592256 |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Ashe County (N.C.) |
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Author | : John Houck |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738506159 |
The mountain region of North Carolina possesses an uncommon grace and beauty, a landscape full of breathtaking peaks, lush forests, and winding rivers and creeks. Within this picturesque scenery, pioneering spirits settled in Ashe County and established communities in an environment both enchanting and perilous. Officially formed in 1799, Ashe County stands as one of the High Country's oldest and most intriguing areas. In this volume, containing over 200 black-and-white images, readers will journey into the Ashe County of yesteryear, a time dominated by horse and buggies, dirt roads, and early farms. Starting in the 1870s and stretching into the twentieth century, this stunning visual history allows today's reader to meet the resilient and rugged families that carved towns and communities into this mountainscape, to ride the Virginia Creeper railroad as it carries lumber and other goods to waiting markets, and to stroll along the banks of the historic New River, now recognized as a national Heritage River.
Author | : Arthur Lloyd Fletcher |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-09-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780786443291 |
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina, along the Virginia and Tennessee borders, sits rural, mountainous Ashe County. When an act of the North Carolina General Assembly created Ashe in 1799, the county had previously been claimed by four other counties, the short-lived State of Franklin, and even France, based on treaty claims that the New River drained into the Mississippi. This work is a reprint of the first-ever complete history of the county, originally commissioned by the Ashe County Research Association, written by Arthur Lloyd Fletcher and published in 1963. Chapters cover early explorers, the ill-fated War of Regulation, the county's creation in 1799, the county's role in the Civil War and both World Wars, religion, education, industry, community leaders and newspapers, recreation, and folklore, among other topics.
Author | : Eleanor Baker Reeves |
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Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Ashe County (N.C.) |
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Author | : John Houck |
Publisher | : Arcadia Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2000-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781531603939 |
The mountain region of North Carolina possesses an uncommon grace and beauty, a landscape full of breathtaking peaks, lush forests, and winding rivers and creeks. Within this picturesque scenery, pioneering spirits settled in Ashe County and established communities in an environment both enchanting and perilous. Officially formed in 1799, Ashe County stands as one of the High Country's oldest and most intriguing areas. In this volume, containing over 200 black-and-white images, readers will journey into the Ashe County of yesteryear, a time dominated by horse and buggies, dirt roads, and early farms. Starting in the 1870s and stretching into the twentieth century, this stunning visual history allows today's reader to meet the resilient and rugged families that carved towns and communities into this mountainscape, to ride the Virginia Creeper railroad as it carries lumber and other goods to waiting markets, and to stroll along the banks of the historic New River, now recognized as a national Heritage River.
Author | : Doug Munroe |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1476631514 |
The mountains of Ashe County, in North Carolina's northwest corner, support an antediluvian mixed hardwood forest, rooted in nutrient-rich soil and watered by 40 to 60 inches of annual rainfall. From the highest peaks--approaching a mile above sea level--to the lowest valleys, through which flows one of the most ancient river systems in the world, trees carpet much of the county's 406 square miles. Species with nicknames like wahoo, goosefoot, ironwood, shadblow, bom-a-gilly and buckeye thrive. Others, dominant in the region for millennia, have all but disappeared in recent years. The author describes in detail their anatomy and ecology, and discusses maple syrup production, the local nursery business and the lore and deep value of heritage apple trees; 165 photographs are included.
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Author | : Leland R. Cooper |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2016-04-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476618887 |
Said to be one of the oldest rivers in the world, the New River begins at two locations in Watauga County in northwest North Carolina. From there the North and South Forks meander north through Ashe County until they meet near the Virginia border and continue through a corner of Alleghany County before turning north again into Virginia and West Virginia and on to the Ohio. Settlers came to the fertile bottom lands along the New River during the 18th and 19th centuries and many of their descendants still live there today. In this collection of oral histories, 33 people in Ashe, Alleghany, and Watauga counties--most of whom are in their 70s, 80s, and 90s--share memories of their lives and work on the New River and their hopes for its future. They tell of floods, snows, sickness, the Great Depression, education, religion, quilting, weaving and other crafts, and the fight against a large power company that planned to flood thousands of acres of land. They also recall how the river has been central to their lives in providing food, transportation and recreation.
Author | : Martin Crawford |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813920344 |
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