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The Last Train from Elkland

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Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1427616671
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book The Last Train from Elkland written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1427629765
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Green Gold written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359818706
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 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

The Laurel Fork Railway of Carter County, Tennessee

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Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329994655
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (299 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.

From Tripoli to Timbuktu

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Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359337198
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (593 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:

The "Virginia Creeper": A Novel

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Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387954288
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)

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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.

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
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557875900
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)

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

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:

The Virginia Creeper

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Author : Doug McGuinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1427632189
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book The Virginia Creeper written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Steam Shovel and Dredge

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Steam Shovel and Dredge written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stephen Shoemaker

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Author : Stephen Shoemaker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078647467X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Stephen Shoemaker written by Stephen Shoemaker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Trains

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Trains written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania

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Author : John Woolf Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania written by John Woolf Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Virginia Creeper in Ashe County

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738588148
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book The Virginia Creeper in Ashe County written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Jefferson did not exist until local entrepreneurs saw an opportunity to run the tracks from Whitetop Mountain in Virginia to North Carolina. In 1914, the Virginia Carolina Railroad came to Ashe County. Virgin timber grew in the mountains, luring the Hassenger Lumber Company into the area. Small sawmills and lumbering operations were located "up every holler," so the tracks were expanded into Elkland, known today as Todd. Until 1933, the train ran daily into the county, and communities such as Nella, Tuckerdale, Camrose, Bowie, Lansing, Warrensville, Berlin, and West Jefferson grew up along the tracks. The timber was gone by 1929, and when the Great Depression came, the Norfolk and Western Abingdon Line made the slow grinding haul up the mountain every week. During the 1950s and 1960s, the spectacular fall leaf displays made excursion trains popular for tourists. The last train ran in 1977, and the tracks in Ashe County were removed, leaving only a few vestiges to show the train was ever here.

Awards [of The] First Division

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Author : United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Awards [of The] First Division written by United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board and published by . This book was released on with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Department Reports of Pennsylvania

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Department Reports of Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Workmen's Compensation Supplement to Department Reports of Pennsylvania

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Author : Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Board
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workmen's Compensation Supplement to Department Reports of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Board and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baltimore and Ohio Employes Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baltimore and Ohio Employes Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: