Record #:

17280

Author(s):

Powell, Ainsley

Abstract:

The mill tells an important story about colonial life and the colonial economy. Colonial mills in the Mountain and Piedmont regions used the energy from water, and wind usually powered the Coastal Plain mills' machinery. These mills were usually grist or sawmills.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 51 Issue 2, Spring 2012, p28-30, il, f

Subject(s):

Sawmills--Sunburst; Gristmills

Record #:

6853

Author(s):

Mitchell, Jessie Tucker

Abstract:

Sunburst, a sawmill town in Haywood County, was founded in 1908, to supply wood to the paper mill in nearby Canton. The town had a brief, but interesting, history. Peter G. Thomson, an Ohio paper manufacturer, built the town and mill. Forestry expert Carl A. Schenck moved the Biltmore School of Forestry there for a few years. A Tennessee company, prominent for its work in building the Panama Canal, constructed a twenty-mile railroad line between Canton and Sunburst. The Episcopal Church built a mission school there. In 1931, the wood supply ran out, and the Sunburst mill was shut down and dismantled. The workforce moved to the Canton mill. In 1932, a dam was built across the West Fork of the Pigeon River, submerging the remnants of the town under eighty-seven-acre Lake Logan.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 4, Sept 2004, p24-25, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Sawmills--Sunburst; Sunburst--History