North Carolina Geological Collection

1891-1913, 1935, undated
Manuscript Collection #196
Portions of this collection are digitized (1 item)
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Creator(s)
Pratt, Joseph Hyde, 1870-1942
Physical description
0.25 Cubic Feet
Preferred Citation
North Carolina Geological Collection (#196), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Repository
ECU Manuscript Collection
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This collection contains clippings, signed petitions, correspondence, filed notes, and blueprints. There are indications that the material may have originated with N.C. State Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt.

Biographical/historical information

Joseph Hyde Pratt came to North Carolina in 1897 and lived in Chapel Hill. He was a state mineralogist. He was a state mineralogist from 1897 to 1905. In 1906 he was appointed the state geologist for the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey. During his appointment, he sponsored good road days, conducted good road institutes, and sponsored fisheries and drainage conventions. He took part in the establishment of forest reservations and organized the Southern Forestry Congress, and the North Carolina Forestry Association. Additionally, the Survey published 12 bulletins, two volumes, and six economic papers on the geology and mineral resources of the state. Joseph served 19 years as the state geologist and made a profound impact on forests, drainage of swamp lands, water power, public roads, and fisheries and the fishing industry.

Scope and arrangement

This collection (1891-1913, 1935, undated) contains clippings, signed petitions, correspondence, field notes and blueprints relating to Big Cold Water Creek Drainage District in Cabarrus Co., to the Hazel Creek section of Swain and Graham counties and to North Carolina Fisheries Committee activities (re oysters and fish) affecting mainly northeastern North Carolina--especially Ocracoke and also Pamlico and Dare counties. There are indications that the material may have originated with N.C. State Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt.

Administrative information
Custodial History

March 1, 1972, (addition 1), Papers (1856 - 1913), consisting of correspondence, petitions, charts, maps, proclamations, clippings, and miscellaneous. Transferred from J.Y. Joyner Library

Source of acquisition

Gift of J.Y. Joyner Library

Processing information

Encoded by Apex Data Services

Processed by Ashlyn Racine, Jan. 2024

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

Key terms
Personal Names
Pratt, Joseph Hyde, 1870-1942
Topical
Conservation of natural resources--North Carolina
Drainage districts--North Carolina
Fishery law and legislation--North Carolina
Places
Cold Water Creek (N.C.)
Hazel Creek (N.C.)
Container list
0196 Digitized Material
Box 1 Folder b Image of the Longitudinal Section of Barnhardt Vein Gold Hill Mine. 1 page
Box 1 Folder c Photocopy of the Prospectus Roanoke Navigation and Water Power Company. 10 pages, 1892
Box 1 Folder d Petitions to the Fish Committee. 13 pages, 1910
Box 1 Folder e An Act to Amend Existing Game Laws of North Carolina. 14 pages, 1935
Box 1 Folder f Good Roads Proclamation by the Governor. 1 page, 1913
Box 1 Folder g Petitions to Gov. R. B. Glenn, asking him to take steps in protecting them against the taking up by entry of their natural oyster bottom. 4 pages
Box 1 Folder h North Carolina Supreme Court, Spring Term 1913: In re Big Cold Water Creek Drainage District
Box 1 Folder i Item 1 Letter to Judge A. W. Graham regarding the expenses of the Dish Committee provided by A. V. Dockery. 3 pages, 1910
Box 1 Folder i Item 2 Letter to Hon. A. W. Graham regarding a request to take a fish census for the city of Raleigh. 4 pages
Box 1 Folder i Item 3 Letter from the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries. 3 pages, April 2, 1900
Box 1 Folder j Register: Fish and Oyster Convention. 8 pages
Box 1 Folder k Report on the Planted Oyster Ground, Section No. 11 Near Ocracoke, N.C. 2 pages
Box 1 Folder l Item 1 Photocopy of the article Fisheries Committee Here in the Morning Star, Wilmington. 1 page, Tuesday, March 15, 1910
Box 1 Folder l Item 2 Photocopy of the article Obtain Mass Information in the Morning Star, Wilmington. 2 pages, July, 24, 1909
Box 1 Folder l Item 3 Photocopy of the New Bern Daily Journal. 2 pages, July 22, 1909
Box 1 Folder m Map Showing the Great Falls Water Power M. & I. Co's Canal on Roanoke River, N.C. 4 pages, 1891-1892