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1344
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Beginning in the 1880s, logging railroads made large-scale logging operations possible. By around 1910, North Carolina was an important producer of lumber for the national market.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 58 Issue 1, Jan 1994,
p11-17, il
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10694
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The lumber business that began and spread across the state in the 1880s could not have done so without the logging railroad. So many logging firms relied on railroads to transport logs from the woods to the mills that North Carolina had one of the heaviest concentrations of such railroads in the country. While most were temporary, some grew from private carriers into modern common carriers that are still active today, such as the Durham & Southern and the Aberdeen & Rockfish. The last logging railroad in North Carolina was the line of the Bemis Hardwood Lumber Co., near Robbinsville, that ceased logging operations in 1947.
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23129
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Pinetown's story revolves around one man--Surry Parker. He worked for the Roanoke Railroad and Lumber Company in Virginia, and the company sent him to build a railroad between Plymouth, North Carolina and the Dismal Swamp. He then developed Pinetown by building homes and businesses, as well as bringing technology to the small town.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 6 Issue 1, Fall 2014,
p76-81, il, por
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40463
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Hugh MacRae Morton, famed photographer, had an appreciation of the area around Grandfather Mountain perhaps more akin to individuals like John Muir, co-founder of the Sierra Club. As for Morton's grandfather and former owner of Grandfather Mountain, Hugh McRae, his appreciation of the region leaned more toward development than conservation, as demonstrated by his ownership of Linville Improvement Company.
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Morton family; Morton, Hugh MacRae, 1921-2006; MacRae, Hugh, 1865-1951; Linville Improvement Company--Hugh MacRae; Muir, John, 1838-1914; Grandfather Mountain State Park--History; Grandfather Mountain--history; Grandfather Mountain Highland Games (Linville); Linville Gorge; Logging railroads--History; Sierra Club--North Carolina; MacRae Meadows (Avery County); Linville Company--see also Linville Improvement Company ; Highlands--Description and travel; Highlands--history