Record #:

24575

Author(s):

Siler, Leon M.

Abstract:

McDowell County is the location of a new ‘Mountain Gateway Museum’ that features historic photos of daily life of frontiersmen who explored the area and how the region developed over time.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 39 Issue 9, October 1971, p8-9, 30, il

Subject(s):

McDowell County; McDowell County--Description and travel; McDowell and Rutherford Counties--History; Museums

Record #:

24623

Author(s):

Braly, Rosamond

Abstract:

The 150-year-old John Carson mansion in McDowell County is being restored and turned into a museum.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 31 Issue 26, May 1964, p11, 14, il

Subject(s):

Carson House (Marion); Marion--Description and travel; Marion--History; McDowell County; McDowell County--Description and travel

Record #:

35985

Author(s):

Mozo, Jessica

Abstract:

From as far back as the early 1800s, the Woody family has been renowned for chair making not only in North Carolina but around the world. Both Jimmy Woody of Mitchell County and a cousin Max Woody of McDowell County continue an 18th Century tradition and purely American form of chair construction that uses neither nails, screws nor glue in the manufacturing process, but rather the joining of high moisture wood onto kiln-dried wood of the same species. The wetter wood shrinks making the chair almost indestructible. Brothers Arval and Walter Woody once made a chair for President John F. Kennedy, now in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

Source:

North Carolina Field and Family (NoCar S 1 N672), Vol. 5 Issue 1, Spring 2018, p20-22

Subject(s):

chair manufacture; Mitchell County; McDowell County; McDowell County--Industry and agriculture