The Last Train From Elkland
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The Last Train From Elkland
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Author : Doug McGuinn
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2007-01-01
The Last Train From Elkland written by Doug McGuinn and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Ashe County (N.C.) categories.
Not only is THE LAST TRAIN FROM ELKLAND a brief history of four northwestern North Carolina mountain communities, it is also about two railroads that operated in and around these communities: the Virginia¿Carolina, also known as the ¿Virginia Creeper¿ (in 1916, the Virginia¿Carolina Railway was bought by the Norfolk & Western Railway, and renamed the Abingdon Branch), and the Deep Gap Tie and Lumber Company¿s railroad, whose former Hassinger Lumber Company¿s Shay logging locomotive operated alongside Gap Creek, from Deep Gap, in Watauga County, North Carolina, to the South Fork of the New River, near Fleetwood, in Ashe County, North Carolina, a distance of only about five miles. Although these communities were located in North Carolina, they all had a common tie-in with the neighboring state of Virginia ¿ the trains of the two railroads hauled logs that had been felled in the area surrounding the four communities, timber destined to be cut at the Hassinger Lumber Company¿s sawmill in Konnarock, Virginia. By the time the blades went silent on Christmas Eve, 1928, almost 400 million board feet of the area¿s best hardwood had passed through the Hassinger Lumber Company¿s sawmill. How much did this unchecked logging contribute to the immense damage done to the area by the disastrous floods of 1916 and 1940? This question is also explored in this book.
Green Gold
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Author : Doug McGuinn
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Green Gold written by Doug McGuinn and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with History categories.
In 1904, when the Hassinger brothers ¿ Luther (L. C.), Will, and John ¿ came from the northwestern Pennsylvania county of Forest to the southwestern Virginia county of Washington with the idea of continuing their father¿s lumber business, they liked what they saw: thousands of acres of virgin forest. Two years later, they built a sawmill in Washington County and a company town to support its workers. L. C.¿s mother, Letisha, named the town Konnarock. In less than ten years, the Hassinger Lumber Company of Konnarock, Virginia, had employed over 400 workers, laid down over 75 miles of railroad track (they named their railroad the White Top Railway), built 20 logging camps, and sawed almost 60,000 board feet of lumber per day at its mill. Not only did the Hassinger Lumber Company cut timber in Washington County, Virginia, they also did extensive timbering in neighboring Ashe County, North Carolina, and also sawed timber cut in Watauga County, North Carolina, when the Deep Gap Tie and Lumber Company, located in the Watauga County village of Deep Gap, bought the Hassinger Lumber Company¿s Shay locomotive No. 3, sending its logs to the Hassinger sawmill in Konnarock, 50 miles away. By the time the blades went silent on Christmas Eve, 1928, almost 400 million board feet of the area¿s best wood had passed through the Hassinger Lumber Company¿s sawmill. This book contains the story of the Hassinger Lumber Company and its company town, Konnarock, as well as information about the Beaver Dam Railroad, the Laurel Railway (both located in the northeastern Tennessee county of Johnson), the Virginia¿Carolina Railway (the ¿Virginia Creeper¿), the logging of the Pond Mountain area of Ashe County, North Carolina, by the Damascus Lumber Company, and the Hassinger Lumber Company¿s logging operations in the Elkland (present-day Todd) area of Ashe County.
The Railroad To Nowhere The Deep Gap Tie Lumber Company Railroad And Other Northwestern North Carolina Business Ventures
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Author : Doug McGuinn
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019
The Railroad To Nowhere The Deep Gap Tie Lumber Company Railroad And Other Northwestern North Carolina Business Ventures written by Doug McGuinn and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Railroads categories.
"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
From Tripoli To Timbuktu
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Author : Doug McGuinn
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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From Tripoli To Timbuktu written by Doug McGuinn and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Lopsided Three A History Of Railroading Logging And Mining In The Holston Doe And Watauga Valleys Of Northeast Tennessee
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Author : Doug McGuinn
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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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 has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Virginia Creeper A Novel
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Author : Doug McGuinn
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2018-07-18
The Virginia Creeper A Novel written by Doug McGuinn and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-18 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Laurel Fork Railway Of Carter County Tennessee
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Author : Doug McGuinn
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016
The Laurel Fork Railway Of Carter County Tennessee written by Doug McGuinn and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Lumber trade categories.
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.
The Virginia Creeper
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Author : Doug McGuinn
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008-01-01
The Virginia Creeper written by Doug McGuinn and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Transportation categories.
The North Carolina Historical Review
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language : en
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Release Date : 2008
The North Carolina Historical Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with North Carolina categories.
Stephen Shoemaker
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Author : Stephen Shoemaker
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-03-05
Stephen Shoemaker written by Stephen Shoemaker and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Art categories.
North Carolina artist Stephen Shoemaker and writer Janet Pittard have teamed up to present a selection of Shoemaker's paintings and drawings and the stories behind them. Known for his dramatic railroad paintings and scenes of life in the Blue Ridge mountains, Shoemaker shares the thought processes involved in creating his artwork, reveals his sources of inspiration (which often include events in local history or personal experiences) and points out clues and symbols appearing in his art. Together with 48 images, several of which were created especially for this publication, and occasional short poems by Pittard, the lively storytelling sheds light on an artist's development as well as the unique culture and history of the mountain region served by the train called the Virginia Creeper, which ran from Abingdon, Virginia, to Elkland, North Carolina (now Todd), from the early 1900s through the mid-1970s.