Record #:

24694

Author(s):

Lanman, Charles

Abstract:

In an excerpt from ‘Letter from the Alleghany Mountains,’ 1848 traveler Charles Lanman (1819-1895) describes his experience traveling on Black Mountain, a peak in the Alleghany Mountains that is today known as Mitchell.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 25, May 1955, p17-18, il

Subject(s):

Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895; Black Mountain; Allegheny Mountains

Record #:

24683

Author(s):

Lanman, Charles

Abstract:

In an excerpt from ‘Letter from the Alleghany Mountains,’ 1848 traveler Charles Lanman (1819-1895) describes his experience traveling down the valley of the French Broad to Hot Springs.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 22, March 1955, p13-14, il

Subject(s):

Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895; Allegheny Mountains; French Broad River--Description and travel; French Broad River; French Broad River (N.C. and Tenn.)

Record #:

24696

Author(s):

Lanman, Charles

Abstract:

In an excerpt from ‘Letter from the Alleghany Mountains,’ 1848 traveler Charles Lanman (1819-1895) describes various Cherokee legends pertaining to Black Mountain in the Alleghany Mountains.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 26, May 1955, p10-11

Subject(s):

Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895; Black Mountain; Cherokee Indians--North Carolina; Cherokee Indians--North Carolina--Legends; Allegheny Mountains

Record #:

24676

Author(s):

Lanman, Charles

Abstract:

In an excerpt from ‘Letter from the Alleghany Mountains,’ 1848 traveler Charles Lanman (1819-1895) describes his arrival in Hickory Nut Gap, a gorge in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and his experience with Cherokees in Qualla Town.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 21, February 1955, p15-16, il

Subject(s):

Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895; Allegheny Mountains; Hickory Nut Gorge; Cherokee Indians--North Carolina; Blue Ridge Mountains--Description and travel

Record #:

24671

Author(s):

Lanman, Charles

Abstract:

In an excerpt from ‘Letter from the Alleghany Mountains,’ 1848 traveler Charles Lanman (1819-1895) describes his first encounter with a Tennessean horse trader in the Appalachian Mountains.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 20, February 1955, p17, 26, il

Subject(s):

Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895; Allegheny Mountains; Appalachian Mountains--Description and travel

Record #:

13190

Author(s):

Zeigler, Wilbur

Abstract:

Taken from selections of a notable 1883 travel book, this excerpt is about a journey through the Alleghany Mountains, describing the region in detail.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 23 Issue 23, Apr 1956, p9-10, il

Subject(s):

Allegheny Mountains

Record #:

24639

Author(s):

Carruth, Paul [Illustrator]; Ziegler and Crosscup [Authors]; Crosscup, Zeigler

Abstract:

An excerpt from the 1881 Travel Book ‘In the Heart of the Alleghanies,’ this article presents a true ghost story of the Smoky Mountains that centers around a mid-1800s mill on the Cheowah River. A number of people died there, prompting the mills close down and subsequent rumors that it was haunted.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 26 Issue 19, February 1959, p10-12, 24, il

Subject(s):

Mills--History; Allegheny Mountains; Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.); North Carolina--History--1865-1950; Ghost stories; Ghosts--North Carolina, Western; Ghosts--North Carolina, Mountains