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Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
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<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
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The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
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Appalachia
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Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force, Volume I, <em>Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities</em> Final Report and an Addendum
Description
An account of the resource
<p>These files contain the report (divided into four files) and an addendum (the fifth file) on land ownership patterns and their impacts based on the results from the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey conducted in 1979. This report and addendum were submitted to the Appalachian Regional Commission by the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force in February 1981. <br /><br />The study was conducted in these six states and counties: <br /><br /><strong>Alabama: </strong>Blount, Cherokee, Cleburne, Cullman, Dekalb, Etowah, Fayette, Jackson, Lamar, Marion, Marshall, Shelby, Tuscaloosa, Walker, and Winston<br /><br /><strong>Kentucky:</strong> Bell, Breadthitt, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Letcher, Martin, Perry, and Pike Counties<br /><br /><strong>North Carolina:</strong> Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Clay, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Madison, Mitchell, Swain, and Watauga<br /><br /><strong>Tennessee: </strong>Anderson, Bledsoe, Campbell, Cumberland, Fentress, Hamilton, Marion, Morgan, Rhea, Roane, Scott, Sequatchie, Van Buren, and White<br /><br /><strong>Virgina: </strong>Bland, Buchanan, Dickenson, Grayson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, Wise, and Wythe<br /><br /><strong>West Virginia: </strong>Braxton, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Marion, Marshall, Mineral, Mingo, Ohio, Raleigh, Randolph, Summers, and Wayne</p>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Alabama
Kentucky
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1981-02
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
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English
Type
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Text
Alabama
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Kentucky
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
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Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
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Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
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Kentucky
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Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force, Volume III, Kentucky Final Report
Description
An account of the resource
These two files contain the final report on land ownership for the twelve Appalachian counties in the state of Kentucky that were part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey conducted in 1979. There are profiles for each county and three case studies—on Harlan, Martin, and Pike Counties—in the report.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Kentucky
Bell County (Ky.)
Breathitt County (Ky.)
Floyd County (Ky.)
Harlan County (Ky.)
Johnson County (Ky.)
Knott County (Ky.)
Knox County (Ky.)
Laurel County (Ky.)
Letcher County (Ky.)
Martin County (Ky.)
Perry County (Ky.)
Pike County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1980-11
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
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English
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Text
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Bell County Ky.
Breathitt County Ky.
Floyd County Ky.
Harlan County Ky.
Johnson County Ky.
Kentucky
Knott County Ky.
Knox County Ky.
Laurel County Ky.
Letcher County Ky.
Martin County Ky.
Perry County Ky.
Pike County Ky.
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Title
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Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
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Geographic Location
Kentucky
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Kentucky: Bell, Breathitt, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Letcher, Perry, and Pike Counties - Land Ownership Survey, 1979
Description
An account of the resource
<span>This document contains properties in </span><span>Bell, </span>Breathitt, <span>Floyd, <span>Harlan, </span></span><span>Johnson, <span>Knott, <span>Knox, <span>Laurel, </span></span></span><span>Letcher, <span>Perry, and </span></span><span>Pike Counties as part of the</span></span> land ownership surveys of counties in Kentucky conducted in 1979 as part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey. To interpret the survey codes, use the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ef19961e0205d0cb732c0608b547c18f.pdf" target="_blank">Key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey</a>.<br /><br />
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A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Bell County (Ky.)
Breathitt County (Ky.)
Floyd County (Ky.)
Harlan County (Ky.)
Johnson County (Ky.)
Knott County (Ky.)
Knox County (Ky.)
Laurel County (Ky.)
Letcher County (Ky.)
Perry County (Ky.)
Pike County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Bell County Ky.
Breathitt County Ky.
Floyd County Ky.
Harlan County Ky.
Johnson County Ky.
Kentucky
Knott County Ky.
Knox County Ky.
Laurel County Ky.
Letcher County Ky.
Perry County Ky.
Pike County Ky.
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Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
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Geographic Location
Appalachia
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Title
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Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Key, 1978-1979
Description
An account of the resource
This document is the key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey conducted between 1978 -1979. The study covered counties in six states within Appalachia: Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. To view the digital collection of the survey for each county, see the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/collections/show/78" target="_blank">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection are available free of charge for personal, non-commercial, and educational use with the proper citation (i.e., Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection AC.104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with questions or requests for further information.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Mountains--Alabama
Mountains--Kentucky
Mountains--North Carolina
Mountains--Tennessee
Mountains--Virginia
Mountains--West Virginia
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1978-1979
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Alabama
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Kentucky
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
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Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Document
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Geographic Location
Kentucky, Bell County
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Kentucky: Bell County - Land Ownership Survey, 1979
Description
An account of the resource
This land ownership survey of Bell County, Kentucky was conducted in 1979 as part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey. To interpret the survey codes, use the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ef19961e0205d0cb732c0608b547c18f.pdf" target="_blank">Key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey</a>.
Rights
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The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection are available free of charge for personal, non-commercial, and educational use with the proper citation (i.e., Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection AC.104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with questions or requests for further information.
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A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Bell County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Bell County Ky.
Kentucky
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
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Geographic Location
Kentucky, Breathitt County
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Title
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Kentucky: Breathitt County - Land Ownership Survey, 1979
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection are available free of charge for personal, non-commercial, and educational use with the proper citation (i.e., Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection AC.104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with questions or requests for further information.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Description
An account of the resource
This land ownership survey of Breathitt County, Kentucky was conducted in 1979 as part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey. To interpret the survey codes, use the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ef19961e0205d0cb732c0608b547c18f.pdf" target="_blank">Key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey</a>.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Breathitt County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Breathitt County Ky.
Kentucky
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Geographic Location
Kentucky, Floyd County
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Kentucky: Floyd County - Land Ownership Survey, 1979
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection are available free of charge for personal, non-commercial, and educational use with the proper citation (i.e., Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection AC.104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with questions or requests for further information.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Description
An account of the resource
This land ownership survey of Floyd County, Kentucky was conducted in 1979 as part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey. To interpret the survey codes, use the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ef19961e0205d0cb732c0608b547c18f.pdf" target="_blank">Key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey</a>.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Floyd County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Floyd County Ky.
Kentucky
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Geographic Location
Kentucky
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Kentucky: Harlan, Breathitt, and Perry Counties - Land Ownership Survey, 1979
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection are available free of charge for personal, non-commercial, and educational use with the proper citation (i.e., Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection AC.104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with questions or requests for further information.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Description
An account of the resource
<span>These two files contain data from the land ownership survey of primarily Harlan County, </span><span>including some data for</span> Breathitt and Perry Counties in Kentucky conducted in 1979 as part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey. To interpret the survey codes, use the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ef19961e0205d0cb732c0608b547c18f.pdf" target="_blank">Key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey</a>.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Harlan County (Ky.)
Perry County (Ky.)
Breathitt County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Breathitt County Ky.
Harlan County Ky.
Kentucky
Perry County Ky.
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Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Geographic Location
Kentucky, Johnson County
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Kentucky: Johnson County - Land Ownership Survey, 1979
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection are available free of charge for personal, non-commercial, and educational use with the proper citation (i.e., Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection AC.104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with questions or requests for further information.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Description
An account of the resource
This land ownership survey of Johnson County, Kentucky was conducted in 1979 as part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey. To interpret the survey codes, use the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ef19961e0205d0cb732c0608b547c18f.pdf" target="_blank">Key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey</a>.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Johnson County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Johnson County Ky.
Kentucky
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
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The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Geographic Location
Kentucky, Knott County
Dublin Core
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Title
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Kentucky: Knott County - Land Ownership Survey, 1979
Rights
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The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection are available free of charge for personal, non-commercial, and educational use with the proper citation (i.e., Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection AC.104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with questions or requests for further information.
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<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Description
An account of the resource
This land ownership survey of Knott County, Kentucky was conducted in 1979 as part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey. To interpret the survey codes, use the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ef19961e0205d0cb732c0608b547c18f.pdf" target="_blank">Key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey</a>.<br /><br />Please note: This survey is missing pages 2-16, 18-20, 22-25, 37-31, 33-39, 41-44, 46-50, and 52-55.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Knott County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Kentucky
Knott County Ky.
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Text
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Geographic Location
Kentucky, Knox County
Dublin Core
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Title
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Kentucky: Knox County - Land Ownership Survey, 1979
Description
An account of the resource
This land ownership survey of Knox County, Kentucky was conducted in 1979 as part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey. To interpret the survey codes, use the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ef19961e0205d0cb732c0608b547c18f.pdf" target="_blank">Key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey</a>.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection are available free of charge for personal, non-commercial, and educational use with the proper citation (i.e., Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection AC.104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with questions or requests for further information.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Knox County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Kentucky
Knox County Ky.
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https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/625d3fc8e8e5593872b329b0b9a9ecb9.pdf
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Geographic Location
Kentucky, Laurel County
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Kentucky: Laurel County - Land Ownership Survey, 1979
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection are available free of charge for personal, non-commercial, and educational use with the proper citation (i.e., Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection AC.104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with questions or requests for further information.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Description
An account of the resource
<p>This land ownership survey of Laurel County, Kentucky was conducted in 1979 as part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey. To interpret the survey codes, use the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ef19961e0205d0cb732c0608b547c18f.pdf" target="_blank">Key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey</a>.</p>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Laurel County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Kentucky
Laurel County Ky.
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https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/db5702e839c11442da4de6852e681c50.pdf
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Geographic Location
Kentucky, Letcher County
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Kentucky: Letcher County - Land Ownership Survey, 1979
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection are available free of charge for personal, non-commercial, and educational use with the proper citation (i.e., Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection AC.104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with questions or requests for further information.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Description
An account of the resource
This land ownership survey of Letcher County, Kentucky was conducted in 1979 as part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey. To interpret the survey codes, use the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ef19961e0205d0cb732c0608b547c18f.pdf" target="_blank">Key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey</a>.<br /><br />Please note: This file only contains pages 32-36.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Letcher County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Kentucky
Letcher County Ky.
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https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/b1351c79974c205974ab764b3074fb51.pdf
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189">Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985, (AC.104)</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Collection AC104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Geographic Location
Kentucky, Martin County
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Kentucky: Martin County - Land Ownership Survey, 1979
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The files contained in the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection are available free of charge for personal, non-commercial, and educational use with the proper citation (i.e., Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records collection AC.104, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with questions or requests for further information.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a title="Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/189" target="_blank"> Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records, 1936-1985</a>
Description
An account of the resource
This land ownership survey of Martin County, Kentucky was conducted in 1979 as part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey. To interpret the survey codes, use the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ef19961e0205d0cb732c0608b547c18f.pdf" target="_blank">Key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey</a>.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Martin County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Appalachian Region
Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Kentucky
Martin County Ky.
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https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/4dcd8a03a145d47fdac4cee6ed49001f.pdf
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
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Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Perry County (Ky.)
Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
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Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
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1979
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Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
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Perry County Ky.
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Appalachian Land Ownership Survey Records
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.</p>
<p>The Task Force created working groups for each of the six states and selected counties for particular concentration. Within these counties, researchers examined land deeds of plots with 250 acres or more. Nineteen counties were used as detailed case studies.</p>
<p>Researchers noted the amount of land, mineral tax rates, agricultural or industrial usage, and absentee, corporate, federal, and local ownership. They also identified over 100 socio-economic indicators to correlate to the various ownership patterns.</p>
<p>The results of the Survey were used in the development of two publications: the seven-volume, 1,800-page study, Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1981) and Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact (University of Kentucky Press, 1983).</p>
<p>The Survey was funded in part by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Needmor Fund. The Highlander Research and Education Center organized the project, and Appalachian State University was a primary sponsoring institution and handled administrative and fiscal details.</p>
This digital collection is only a portion of the Survey-related materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection in Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
Abstract
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Beginning in the fall of 1978, the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force – a coalition of community groups, scholars, and members of the Appalachian Alliance – conducted the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey to examine land ownership patterns within the Appalachian region. The Survey was particularly interested in absentee and corporate ownership and their effects on regional development. The Survey looked at 80 counties within the Appalachian regions of Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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This land ownership survey of Pike County, Kentucky was conducted in 1979 as part of a larger Appalachian Land Ownership Survey. To interpret the survey codes, use the <a href="https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/ef19961e0205d0cb732c0608b547c18f.pdf" target="_blank">Key to the Appalachian Land Ownership Survey</a>.
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Land tenure--Appalachian Region
Land tenure--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use--Appalachian Region
Land use--Appalachian Region, Southern
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region
Land use, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern
Pike County (Ky.)
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Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Mountains
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1979
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Appalachian Land Ownership Survey
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Studies
Kentucky
Pike County Ky.
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Page 1
This is an interview with Mrs. Ollie Blackburn at
Todd by Joy Lamm for the Appalachian Oral History Project
on March 9, 1973.
Q:
I already introduced you, but you might tell us
how old you are and how long you've been living
here.
A:
Well I was reared in Watauga County.
Q:
Were you?
A:
Right up here.
What part of Watauga County?
Todd was our post office, but we
'uz back up where that girl's camp is.
Do you
know where it is up the creek there as you come
down here"?
I don't guess you do.
Q:
Interlaken?
A:
Yeah, we lived right on up the creek there.
where I grew up.
family.
JN
That's
there was twelve of us in the
One died when he was little.
Daddy raised eleven of us.
Momma 'n
Seven girls 'n three
boys.
Q:
When were you born?
A:
I was born in 1&92.
Q:
That sounds like a long time to some of us.
A:
Does sound like a long time to young folks, but it
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don't seem so long to me.
Don't seem like it's been
near as long as it has been.
Q:
So did you always live in this part of the . . .?
A:
I grew up there 'n then after I got out a school,
I left 'n went down to Cherryville, Worth Carolina.
I'se engaged to Ed when the war come on.
to the war.
He volunteered 'n went on.
' /fe went
' 'Tlien I
went to Cherryville 'n worked till he came back.
Got married, 'n then we"' moved to Virginia.
lived in Virginia.
We
But when we were growing up,
we didn't have things like we have now in the mountain.
I've helped my Daddy roll logs, 'n if we'd saved
our timber till a few years back we'd a been a
millionaire.
But we just rolled our timber up 'n down
in the valley 'n set fire to it when it got dry 'n
just burnt it all away up the valley.
Q:
When you were clearing out the pasture - land?
A:,: When we were clearing our land up there, yes.
Just
had about an acre of clear land when my daddy built the
house on the land.
a man.
He had 57 acres.
I worked like
Daddy when he'd start to work, he'd say,
"Come on, boys.
Let's go to work."
We didn't have
no boys until all the seven girls was grown.
we had any boys.
Q:
And then they had the three boys?
Before
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A:
Yes, had three boys.
I don't know anything in the
world to tell about how I grew up.
We just worked for
a livin.
Q:
One of the things I was interested in was whether
girls were treated differently than boys when you were
growing up.
A:
Well, not that I know of.
Q:
Did you go to school just like
A:
We went to school just like the boys, exactly. 'N
we all played together at school.
have any colored people.
Of course we didn't
There's never been any colored
people lived right around here.
My grand-daddies,
on both sides, I guess, had slaves, ya know.
stayed with 'em after they was freed.
But they
They stayed with
'em till they died.
Q:
They did have slaves.
Where did they get their
slaves?
A:
Well, I don't know.
I guess they bought 'em.
I don't
know.
Q:
Did you ever hear any stories about
A:
No, I never did hear any stories, but I used to go to
my great grand-daddies'.
them?
I mentioned my
�grand-daddy, but they lived with my great grand*-daddy
ya know.
An old colored man lived there"n an old
colored lady was there.
We used to love 'em just like
we loved the white people.
We never thought about
pushin 'em around or anything.
I mean their children did.
But they soon left.
There used to be a liauor
still just about a half a mile, I guess, from our house.
Maybe a mile from our house.
People went 'n bought
their liouor from the still.
It was government still
then, ya know.
Q:
How long did it stay in operation?
A:
Well
it went out 'a operation in a little while after-
I must have been about 12 years old when he cult.
don't know whether it 'uz outlawed then or not
ouit.
But he had the still.
I
why he
My daddy used to bring
liouor in a peck bucket f n they'd drink it with a dipper.
Q:
Did your daddy help make it then?
A:
No, he wouldn't make it at all, but he;d buy it.
bought it for a long time.
ouit buying it.
He got saved though 'n
We used to go to parties.
People
loved each other better then than they do now.
they were closer.
He
Neighbors were closer.
I mean
�Q:
Why do you think that was?
A:
Well. I don't know why.
There's just so much more
to be Interested in, I guess, than they was then.
But we'd maybe all the whole family'd go to a
neighbor's house.
We'd play games that night
till midnight and come home and go to bed.
Sometimes
we'd go to one of the homes 'n have a da,nce.
daddy played.
My granddaddy played the violin 'n
my daddy played the banjo.
nicked the banjo too.
Q:
My
One a my neighbors
We had plenty of music.
Would all the little children 'n everything join
in?
A:
Yeah, they'd go with us.
Well, everybody'd just
have a good time.
Q:
What kind of games did you play?
A:
Well- we just played dancing games.
partner, ya know.
a Dartner.
Steal your
We'd get in .the corners 'n get
And we wanted another partner we'd dance
over to this one 'n take it away from that one.
it 'uz really fun.
Oh
(laughter)
Q:
Did the girls steal partners from the . . . .?
A:
Yeah, the girls would steal the boy 'n the boys the
�6.
girls, ya see.
Q:
That could get pretty wild.
A:
Then we'd go back to our corner, but by the time we
got back somebody 'ud be stealin our partner again.
That's really a game that's fun.
of the time.
We had to work.
We worked most
Not many of the girls
in our community had to work like we did in our
family 'cause we didn't have no boys.
just like boys.
We had to work
But we got along good.
We all loved
each other 'n love each other right on.
One brother
died when he was thirty-some years old.
And he's
the only one of the family that's died.
Q:
Do the rest of them still live around here?
A:
No. I'm the only one that lives in this community.
They're scattered.
Some of 'em live in Gaston County
'n some in Avery County.
Q:
When you were going to school or when you were growin
up were you taught that women had a certain place in
life?
A:
No.
Never heard tell of such a thing.(laughter)
Q:
Really?
Did you have any kind of ambition of what
you wanted to do with your life?
�7
A:
Oh, I wanted to be a nurse.
be a nurse.
All my life I wanted to
But we didn't have money enough, and
we's back in the sticks
n I couldn't start out here
on a wagon or a. buggy to go to Winston or Charlotte
or somewhere to get a job.
I didn't go.
But
they got the college at Boone "n a lot of our people
went to school and got a good education.
I went
to a church school over at Valle Crucis.
Q:
Well
that was ouite a trip, wasn't it?
Did you
live over there?
A:
No,
We went in a steer wagon over there one time.
When we got over there, we had a good time.
But
my sister, (she went with me), she got homesick she
ran a.way 'n come home.
. years there.
I liked it.
I stayed three
It was an industrial school, ya know.
They taught us to do everything.
Taught us to make
walks around the houses, the school rooms, from
one dormitory to the other.
They just taught us how
to do lots of things that workin people had to do.
I learned a lot. didn't learn too much in books. I
don't guess.
Q:
How old were you when you went to school over there?
A:
I'se 16.
�Q:
And how long did you stay?
A:
I stayed 3 years.
Q:
And so that was really kind of like a college.
I
mean it was after your regular schools.
A:
Yes.
Q:
Where there boys and girls together?
A:
Yes, no, they just kept girls.
school.
It 'uz a girls
But they had day students that came in.
They had boys in the day school.
There wasn't no
boys that board there.
Q:
Did they teach you anything about nursing?
A:
They taught us first aid, 'n things like that.
About what they teach in the elementary school now
They taught us how to sew, how to embroider, how to
keep a clean house.
'N it don't look like I learned
much, does it?(laughter)
Q:
Well did you date fellows when you were in school
over there?
A:
Yeah.
Every/time a fellow 'ud come 'n wanna date us
we'd date 'em.
in a while.
We didn't get to date only just onc>e
We'd have from seven o'clock till nine
�9
of the evening to entertain our boy friends.
Our
boyfriends could come see us of the day and we'd go
take a walk.
a. buggy.
We didn't have nothing to ride in. but
We'd take a buggy ride once in a while.
Wadn't no cars then.
Just about the year I guess
that I left, why cars began to pass.
Q:
I wanted to ask you your opinion on some things and
then I'd like to talk to you some more about your
past.
Well, maybe I'll ask you this first.
How long
did you and Reverend Ed court before you were married?
A:
Eleven years.
Q:
Eleven?
A:
That's the reason he's all the time telling us we
My Lord.
got no business a being in a hurry.
Q:
Did y'all live in the same community?
A:
Yes.
Just about two and a half miles from here to
my house.
Q:
How old were you when you got married?
A:
Twenty-five.
Q:
Was there any special reason why you waited so long?
A:
Well
I didn't wanna get married 'n I don't guess
he did.
He must not because he went - a.fter we
�1Q
were engaged we were to be married.
Well, we hadn't
set any date when he volunteered for the army.
'N he changed his mind when he went - or he tells
that.
He stayed over in France 'n he got to be
an alcoholic.
He was a drunkard, he wasn't an
alcoholic, but he drank.
'N he liked it so good
over there - those girls, ya know, those pretty
French girls - he thought he wanted to live there
forever.
He tells that tale now.
When he got dis-
charged, he wanted to come home, ya know.
knew he wouldn't a gonna be happy.
But he
That he 'uz goin
back over there just as quick as - I don't know,
3 months I guess, leave they got - discharged 'n
then if they'd re-enlist before they came out that
they could have that long a time to go back.
aimed to go back he said.
He
But I was at Cherryville
when he came home 'n he wrote me a card from New
York - he knew I was at Cherryville - 'n told me to
be at home 'n what time he'd be at home, ya know.
I wrote 'n told him that I'd not be at home, I wasn't
gonna hunt him up.
wanted to come.
He could come after me if he
So I just stayed down there.
So
he did, quick as he got home - he spent one night
at home 'n here he come on down there.
married down there.
We got
�133.
Q:
Very shortly after that?
A:
The very next day after he come home.
Q:
The next day?
A:
The next day after he come out a the war.
Q:
And he never did get back to France?
A:
No.
He didn't go back."
He said after he seen me
he *uz contented to stay with me.
up in the pulpit.
He tells that
He preaches to these men, ya
know, about treatin their wives right, about lovin
their wiy.es.
'N he tells 'em if they love'em like
they ought to t.hat.
, «n then he tells that,
ya know, how when he saw me, he didn't wanna go
back to France.
But that 'uz just a tale he told.
So we moved from here then after we got married.
We moved to West Virginia, but he was sick with
T.B. when they discharged him from the army.
I
guess we lived in Virginia two years "n he had to
quit work there.
The doctors told him to go out
in the open 'n fish 'n hunt 'n rest.
Q:
Is that when he went in the Baptist Hospital?
A:
No.
He's sick.
in the Veteran's Hospital a year.
He stayed
A year and four
days, I think, that he'uz in the Veteran's Hospital
before they discharged him.
touch of it since.
But he's n^ver had a
�12.
Q:
When you all got married did you kinda divide up the
chores?
A:
Well, I helped him do everything that he had to do
'n he helped me.
wash dishes.
He helped me do everything except
He didn't wanna wash disheis 'n he
don't yet hardly.
He'll pile the dished up to the top
of the sink 'fore he'll wash 'em. (laughter)
Q:
What are some of the things that he helped ya do?
A:
.Things he helped me do?
Well, he'd make up our bed
every mornin when we got up 'n always made the fires
n 1 started the stove to cook.
He swept the livin
room 'n the kitchen 'n the dinin room nearly everytime.
He's always helped me.
field with him.
'N then I'd go to the
When we got our work done here I'd
go and help set out cabbage.
Q:
So he'd help you get everything done and then you all
would go together.
A:
Yes.
If we had to make a fence why I'd go with him
'n make a fence.
Q:
That must have been wonderful to be together like
that.
A:
It was wonderful.
We've had a wonderful life, 'n
we didn't either one kill ourself with work.
�13.
Q:
Were you raised to believe that you should share all
your tasks?
A:
Sure.
My mother always did it.
Q:
Your mother and father used to work together like that?
A:
Yes.
Well, my daddy, I don't guess he ever washed the
dishes even when Mama was in the bed.
help her do anything of her work.
He never did
But I was the
oldest child of the twelve 'n I had a lot 'a that to
do.
They were married in 1$90.
Maybe a year later.
I was born in 1$92.
Q:
Was your husband raised in a different kind of family
where the husband did help his wife in the home?
I
mean did his ma and daddy do like you all?
A:
I don't know.
Ed's mother never worked out anywhere,
done any 'a his work except milk the cows.
had four or five cows to milk.
They always
She always helped him
milk the cows.
Q:
Well don't you think that helps people stay close together when they work together like that?
A:
Sure.
This here woman a goin this way to work 'n man a
goin that way to work, comin in 'n the woman give tee
totally out when she comes in.
Why, my gosh.
see how people take it. (laughter)
I don't
�14.
Q:
Well, you're describing me.
I don't know how they
do either.
A:
No.
I don't see how they - I think they get farther
'n farther apart.
We have to counsel with people -
just everyday or two we have people comin.
The man
or the woman one- or the children a comin to us 'n
tellin us they just can't make it any longer the way
they do.
The husband will
come 'n the wife's come
in before him maybe 'n dressed again'n gone somewhere
with the children.
'N the man comes in - Well, I
went the other day, they called us to come to a
home 'n when we got there the man was sittin there
eatin some applesauce 'n bread, I reckon - no
cookie, it 'uz a Graham cracker.
he had for supper.
for supper.
Now that's what
He told me that 'uz what he had
They don't have any home life.
think the place for women is in the home.
I
I know -
in a few cases, I think, it'd be all right for the
woman to work - where the husband 'uz dead or an
invalid or somethin.
Maybe he wasn't quite an
invalid, but he 'uz able to take care of the
children while she worked, 'n they could get along
'n love each c.ther like they ought to.
ya, it's destroyin the world.
People tell me they
can't live without they all work.
enough.
But, I tell
Can't make
�.15,
(At this point on the tape, Mr. Blackburn comes
into the room and makes a comment about working in
the mines.)
Q:
Did you work in the mines?
A:
I used to.
Q:
Where did you work?
A:
Oh, Kentucky 'n Virginia, West Virginia.
Q:
Did you really?
A:
I did for years.
Q:
Where in Kentucky and Virginia?
A:
At Jenkins.
Q:
Well I've got to talk to you^.about that .sometime
because I've got<friends over in Pippa Passes,
which is in Knott County, pretty close to Jenkins.
A:
Yeah.
Jenkins is in Letcher County.
Q:
When were you workin in the mines?
A:
Oh, I've forgotten, honey.
It's been so long.
(Mrs. B.) He went to the mines when we got married
That's where we bought our home in Virginia.
Coeburn, Virginia.
�16,
Q:
Oh, you worked in Coeburn then?
A:
Yes, we bought our home there'n lived there till we
had 2 children.
Q:
I'd really like to talk to y'all about this.
point, a neighbor arrives.
(At this
Several minutes of the tape
is conversation between the Blackburns and their
neighbor.
Comment is made about A.S.U.)
(Mr.) I used to sell meal to the college at Boone.
Q:
Did you grind the meal?
A:
(Mre)' I did grind it.
Bought the corn-big trailer
loads-'n ground it 'n sold it to 'em.
I'd go up 'n
sell 'em meal 'n eat dinner with 'em.
Q:
Where was your mill?
A:
It was over at Todd.
Todd used to be a big place.
Railroads 'n banks 'n drug stores.
(Mrs.) Washed away.
(Mr.) Used to be a railroad in here, darlin.
Q:
Is that what brought in the drug
A:
That's what brought it in.
here.
stores and banks?
We had numbers of stores
It's what broke us up.
Come in 'n hauled
everything off we had 'n left us sittin high 'n dry.
Q:
What did they haul off?
�17,
A:
Lumber, all of our fine lumber.
(Mrs.) Tannin bark, stove wood . . . .
(Mr.) Yeah, everything we had. Left us sittin dry.
(Mrs.) Came in on us like the mining business,
Q:
Did ya not get fair prices?
A:
(Mr.) Yeah, I guess.
No, not fair.
dollar meant something then.
But you know a
Now we get eighteen,
twenty, twenty-two dollars a day for workin.
We
worked ten hours 'n got a dollar 'n a half.
150
an hour.
Q:
Did you have the great big old trees?
A:
(Mrs.) Oh mercy.
(Mr.) Four foot through, darlin.
around.
'N twelve foot
Oh, chestnuts, ya know, in piles. Big,
brown chestnuts.
Q:
Chestnuts would grow that big?
A:
(Mr.) Oh, yes ma'am.
Four foot across 'em.
I can
take ya up here on our land and show ya chestnut
stumps that's four feet across.
Couldn't saw 'em.
The saw 'uz so big they'd have to saw down this way 'n
turn 'em in.
Honey, ya can't understand.
(Mrs.)
Alec, his daddy, 'ud be a millionaire if he had that
timber to sell now, that he sold off 'a this place here.
�18.
Q:
Do you know the name of the company or companies?
A:
(Mr.) It was the J. Walter Wright Lumber Company in
Mountain City, Tennessee.
In Bristol, really.
they was other companies in here.
bought a lot of the lumber.
an individual.
any company.
'N
Mr. Charlie Steele
He's from Lenoir.
He's just
So far as I know he didn't go by
He just went by his own personal name,
but he bought lots 'a timber.
Q:
Well now, when was this?
A:
Oh, I don't know.
in
In '24 (Neighbor) Train come up here
1916.
Q:
And when did it go out?
A:
(Neighbor) Did it go out in '36?
(Mr.) I don't know.
(Neighbor) Wasn't it 20 years it 'uz supposed to run?
Q:
So it went through part of the Depression then, didn't
it?
It kept running?
A:
(Mrs.) Yes.
Q:
Well what did they use the wood for?
A:
(Mr.) No.
Do you know?
They'd extract, make tanning acid. Took
it over here to Damascus 'n ground it up 'n made acid out
of it. Make moccasins . . . .
�19.
(Mrs.) Take cowhides 'n all kind 'a hides 'n made
shoes.
We could 'a been rich in this country if
we hadn't loved our dirt so good we wouldn't sell
nobody an acre of it.
SIDE II
Q:
Would you have wanted the furniture factories here?
A:
(Mr.) Yeah, I guess I would have wanted 'em in them
days 'n would 'a still would, I guess.
Q:
Would you want to give up you land?
A:
(Mr.) No. I wouldn't give 'em a inch.
I guess.
the way it is.
(Mrs.) That's
That's the way everybody felt about
it.
Q:
I get so concerned.
I guess particularly since I
never had a place, and to be able to see this land
and to see it going.
A:
(Mr.) You love it, honey?
Q:
Oh, yes.
The fact that it's all being built on,
and bulldozed down.
A:
Once its gone, its gone.
(Mr.) It's gone forever, little girl.
Mama 'n me
'uz trying to keep our little piiot here for our
children.
We got five children.
We just got
27 acres, but we hope we can keep it.
�20.,
(Mrs.)
so what?
Q:
Are all your children still around here?
A:
(Mrs.) No.
One of 'em lives in Ashe County.
One
lives in Abingdon, Virginia; one in Virginia Beach,
Virginia; one in Moorestown, New Jersey; and one
in Cherryville.
Q:
Do they feel about land like you do?
A:
(Mr.) Feel worse than we do.
(Mrs.) Law, they're
worse than us about this mountain land.
(Mr.) I
told my little daughter, I said,"I can sell our land
now 'n divide upp the money 'n Ma 'n me go to the
rest home."
'N our little daughter 'said, "Not a
spoonful 'a mine ' 1 be sold."
1
Didn't wanna sell
a spoonful.
Q:
So they hope to come back here?
A:
They're plannin on comin back.
Our little boy-
lives in Virginia Beach- he'll soon be retirin.
He's a printer for the United States government.
'N we've got a little boy in Cherryville.
for Carolina Freight.
He drives
He hadn't got many more years
'n he wants to come back.
They wanna come back now.
'N our little daughter in New Jtersey -she's a librarian.
She's got a model librarian/ I don't know what
-" you'd call it' where teahcers come in.
She teaches
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them.
'N our little daughter in Ashe Gounry -she
married a sanitarian -she teaches school.
Ma 'n
me's SO years old, 'n I'm a preacher 'n she's my helper.
Q:
Well that's what we were talkin about.
I thought
it was so wonderful the way she said you all did
things together here in the house then you would go
out 'n work together.
A:
She asked me what I thought - if back when we were young
'n able to work - what I thought about the people that
leave home goin off to work, women out 'a the home again
to work.
I told her it had ruined the country.
It has.
(Mr.) If they'd come home 'n stay at home I'd get me a
job.
(Mrs.) You've got a job. One that keeps ya busy 24
hours a day. That's the truth.
(Neighbor leaves)
Q:
Let me ask you something that you do know a lot about,
and that's raising children.
you're a good mother?
How do you know when
What do you think it takes to be
a good mother?
A:
(Mrs) Well, I couldn't tell you that.
I've never
been one. (laughter)
Q:
How do you know if you're raising your children right?
�22.
A:
(Mrs.) Well, ya don't.
(Mr.) That's easy.
'em.
Get the Book 'n read the Bible to
Ya don't know if they'll take it, but that's
the way we raised ours.
Niarly every night, read the
Bible 'n prayed with 'em, put 'em to bed. 'N God sent
'em all out to good jobs.
fine people.
All
All have good jobs 'n all
Christian people.
At home they'll
pray with us.
(Mrs.) I had to paddle some of 'em pretty much.
didn't never do Ben any good.
I had to use a good switbh
on him. He'd do anything in the world.
psychology on that fellow.
wife has to.
Spanking
You had to use
'N you have to now.
His
I'd give him a whippin, but I can see now
if 'a had time to have been reasonable, 'n reasoned
with him 'n let him understood what it meant to be a
doin that, why I think I could 'a done more with him.
But when I'd get through whippin him he'd say, "Now
go to the church 'n shout tonight!"
Lots of others
would 'a thought 'Law, I've plum ruined him now. I
know I've ruined him.'
'N I'd say, "Well honey, I'll
have to because I know that I've done my duty."
'N that'd settle him down.
Q:
Well do people raise children differently today?
A:
(Mrs.) Well, the children raise their parents now, the
way I see it.
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Q:
What do you mean by that?
A:
(Mrs.) Well, they just do what the children say.
(Mr*) Ma 'n me 'uz the boss among our babies till
they's married.
Sweethearts 'ud come here 'n I'd
say, "You boys goin to church?
church.
We're goin to
You can go to church or sit here till we
get back.
My girls is a goin to church this mornin."
'N they'd usually go.
big jobs.
Now they're nice men with
One of 'ems worth a million dollars
'n come 'n hear me preach.
a fine job.
'N the other un's got
'N the other 'uns a aeronautical
engineer for the United Stated government.
Q:
Really?
One of your boys?
A:
No. One of my son-in-laws.
Honey, we raised 'em —
we's just Christians 'n we just worked with'em 'n
told 'em what they ought to do 'n we prayed with 'em
three times a day.
They got along good.
trouble with the law.
No
Married lovely girls.
Look's like God's made 'em rich.
Q:
Did you take them with you?
A:
I took 'em to.church.
I didn't send 'em.
Thank
God, I'd gather 'em up 'n take 'em.
Q:
I mean, did you take them with you when you were
working?
�24.
A:
(Mr.) Go on preaching tours?
Kept 'em 'n bedded era
down, honey, on the church bench.
(Mrs.) Gene says he's raised under a church bench.
(Laughter)
(Mr.) We took 'em, darlin.
Just -
(Mrs.) It 'uz a good place to raise 'em.
(Mr.) We took our babies to church, 'n they honor
us for it now.
Q:
Well were there certain things that you felt like were
your duty, and certain things that you felt like were
yours in raising the children?
A:
(Mr.) Yeah.
I felt like it was our duty to raise 'em
so they could
(Mrs.) Well, I never criticized Daddy if he corrected
'em and he never criticized me, either.
'N I never
did threaten 'em with their daddy, like a lot 'a people
did.
A lot 'a people did
in my time, when they's
rearin their children, they'd threaten 'em to tell their
daddy when he come home what they'd been a doin or
how they'd done.
I never did do that.
I never would.
Children have to have a boss, 'cause when you get out
in the world you're gonna have a boss or you're gonna
have your own business 'n ya have to control yourself
with that.
'N if you never learn to ."abide by rules,
it's hard to teach people when they get grown to abide
by certain regulations.
My daddy taught me that.
thought he's awful rough on us, but he 'uz a pretty
We
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good daddy.
He didn't abuse us a tall or in any way,
but he laid the law down.
He meant what he said 'n
we just learned that he meant what he said.
I've
often said that that's how I learned to trust the
Lord 'n obey the Lord.
'Cause the Lord's supposed to
talk to you, ya know, lead you, and I had learned
obedience at home.
If you learn to obey when you're
young, it's not hard to do when you get old, when
you're grown.
Q:
That's right.
A:
(Mrs.) A lot 'a children now never learned obedience.
(Mr.) Ollie's brother-a little boy about 9 years
old - his daddy told him to do something
fn
upset 'n he went out 'n slammed the door.
said,"Jim, come back in.
door."
it kindly
'N his father
Now go out 'n shut the
Jim went out again 'n slammed the door again.
'N he made come back 'n open the door 'n close it 7
times, till he learned to close it nice 'n mild.
Seven times, closed it so nice 'n sensible.
God.
Thank
Made him come back 'n close it 7 times before he
ever got it settled down, (laughter)
(Mrs.) He hadn't forgotten it yet.
(Mr.) No. He'll all the time close the door nice.
(laughter)
I .heard somebody preachin that.
Didn't you
Ollie, the other night?
(Mrs.) Yeah, just somewhere.
(Mr.) Yeah, learnin how to close the door.
thought about that.
'N I
�26.
(Mrs.) Said it's your personality, ya know, by the
way you closed the door.
(Mr.) 'N that lady said- she visited homes, ya know,
that she wasn't wanted by the way they shut the
door.
Q:
A lot of these questions that I wanted to ask you I
almost know
the answers to from talking to ya'll.
One that I was kind of interested in was what was the
most important thing that you remember your mother
teaching you?
Is there anything that she taught you that
really helped you, you know, in your life?
A:
(Mrs.) Yes, it wouldn't mean nothin to anybody else,
but Mama believed in bein born again, of the Spirit.
'N she believed with all her heart that ya had to be
born again, 'n so when I started off to school- well,
when I was gettin ready to go - I hadn't never been
born again.
'N she says, "Children, I don't want 'cha
to go over there till ya get saved.
saved 'n know the Lord before ya go."
I want cha to be
'N she said,
"I'm afraid, if you's to go over there, they'd
get ya
in that church that don't believe in bein born again."
That 'uz the Episcopal church.
remembered that.
And, so I always
She never taught us much about
religion, but she was interested.
�27.
Q:
What did she mean by being born again?
A:
(Mrs.) That's committing yourself to the Saviour,
accepting his salvation , 'n knowing that you have
accepted it, because that's what we have to do.
Jesus come to redeem, so we have to accept that
salvation 'n I hadn't never accepted it, 'n didn't
know for myself that Jesus died for me, ya see.
'N when I realized that I'se lost because I hadn't
never accepted the salvation he made for us. 'N
that's what she was afraid of.
She was afraid that I'd
go on all my life, ya know, like a lot 'a people do,
'n think because they join the church they're
saved.
'N that's what I mean by bein born again.
Daddy
might could explain it better.
(Mr.) No, I couldn't.
Lord, honey.
know.
Becoming a new creature in the
That's it.
Dangerous drunkard.
mines.
I used to be a drunkard! ya
Carried liquor in the
It's a miracle of God I didn't blow
'em
square
Q: Did you really?
A:
(Mr.) Sure, in the place 'a takin water I'd take in
liquor.
The night boss didn't know it, ya know.
We all took water, ya know, in the bottom of our
buckets.
it.
Had to.
It 'uz the only place we could get
'N I'd take liquor in the place of water.
in there all day, three miles underground.
Worked
�ad.
I crimped 10 thousand dynamite caps.
Stick 'em on the end 'n fuse em.
'N if I'd a missed a thousandeth part of an inch I'd
a blown my head off.
(Mrs.) Ya ought 'a known better than that.
(Mr.) I'se careless.
Q:
I want to come back and talk to you about your
experiences in the mines.
I've got a whole lot 'a
questions I've been wanting to ask somebody.
A:
(Mr.) Bless ya, honey.
I'se young, ya know, 'n
God wouldn't bother me to preach I'd go back.I
love to work in the mines.
interesting things in there.
Oh, there's so many
Find anything on
earth you's looking for. Picture of anything you'd
want.
Oh trees 'n all kinds of plants, 'n just
anything.
Animals, 'n bears, find a lot of bears.
'N all kinds of little trees 'n beautiful ferns
in the top, ya know.
And oh just anything,
(Mrs.) 'N that coal.
(Mrs.) You come back
anytime ya wanna come back
little darlin, but let me tell ya somethin.
You can
find so many nice people that can tell ya so many
more things than Uncle Ed can, 'n you'd better
go'n see them.
I can just tell ya about how mean
I used to be, 'n how I game to the Lor$.
And instantly
�29.
he took all this drinkin 'n all this cursin away
from me, 'n I became a new creature.
'N from that
day till this its never come back on me.
a soldier of God ever since.
'n used to be a curser.
Used to be a drunkard
That's all I done.
do somethin nice for ya.
made
me a new creature.
I been
Thank God.
The bfoange
Old things
passed away, 'n behold, all things became newt
what little Ma means about bein born again.
(Mrs.) That's what Mama meant.
That's
I guess.
(Mr.) What we done now, little darlin - anybody
will do for a Christian 'n anybody can be a Christian
if they will be.
But we got to get started to be
a Christian. Tore God ' 1 ever take us to heaven.
1
You've got to meet the Lord for yourself, 'n when
you meet him you'll always be a different creature.
Bless ya.
You've done met him as far I know.
Q:
Yeah.
A:
(Mr.)'Bless ya.
Come back any time you want to.
(Prayer) Father in heaven, we're shocked to find
this\Little girl, Mrs. Lamm, a little darlin.
Itttle enough to be in high school.
Just
And little
Alec, our little boy, was here. And they said
they's interested in comin back 'n talkin to us.
Oh Father, if they
ever come back to our house again
�30.
may they feel just like coming home.
come to Uncle Ed
fn
When they
Aunt Ollie*s house, may it seem so
good and so restful that they just felt like God had
taken 'em in, 'n they had a home away from home.
Bless us all, 'n help us to be good 'n nice 'n quiet
'n sensible.
Always minding our own business.
Always
looking for some place to help somebody who needs
help.
Always kind, always gentle, always willin to
go the second mile, always willin to turn the other cheek
when men don't like us, not pick it up 'n turn it over
again, just leave 'em alone, 'n love 'em so good we'll
kill 'em on pure love.
Bless little Alec 'n his darlin
daddy 'n mamma, this little girl's husband 'n what she
does in life.
Make her great, God.
In Jesus' name
help her to see that her 'n God can do anything they
want, God.
Thank God.
Help 'em to see how big God
is 'n what He'll do for us if we'll just trust Him,
in all of our paths.
We send 'em away today with
the blessings of the Lord on 'em.
Amen 'n amen.
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In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region.
The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students.
Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU.
An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school.
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Ollie Blackburn was born in Watauga County, North Carolina in 1892. She attended an all girls church school in Valle Crucis when she was 16, after she had a general education. She then lived in Cherryville, North Carolina and Coeburn, Virginia at one point.
Mrs. Blackburn explains doing chores around the house and the different activities her family would participate in as a child. She then describes her education and how she met her husband through courting. Mrs. Blackburn's husband is also in the interview, and they about how they got married and moved to different places. While talking about marriage, they explain their theories on raising a family. Mr. Blackburn ends the interview talking discussing his personal experience working in the mines in Kentucky and Virginia.
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AOH #39
Page 1
This is an interview with Mr. Stanley Harris, Sr. for the
Appalachian Oral History Project by Bill Brinkley at Boone on
March 20, 1973.
Q:
Mr. Harris, could you give us your age and place of birth?
A:
Well, I was born in Johnson County, Tennessee, where the
name of the place was Trade, which is just over the line from
North Carolina, October 31, 1882.
Q:
How long have you lived in this community?
A:
When I was two years old, my father moved to what is now
Montezuma, N. C. and I stayed there until I finished high school
and in 1902 I went to college at Athens, Tennessee which was
at that time part of U. S. Grant University, main plant being
located in Chattanooga, but the liberal arts department was at
Athens.
That has since changed to Tennessee Wesleyan College.
I graduated in 1902, and took, a post graduate course at what was
then the American University at Harriman, Tennessee.
that was sold and the American University was closed.
Later,
At the
close of the school in 1903, I went to work for a furniture
factory in Harriman, Tennessee and a year later moved to
Lexington, Kentucky and worked there in a furniture store as
a salesman.
In 1907 I became the assistant secretary of the
YMCA at Lexington and in 1912 became the secretary of the YMCA
at Frankford, Kentucky, and in 1916 became the state boys work
secretary of theYMCA.
Correction!
I went to Frankford as the
YMCA secretary in 1907, and in 1908 started a Boy Scout troop
under the British Scout Association which troop was recognized
and chartered in December, 1908 and became so far as we can find
�2.
any history the first chartered Boy Scout troop in the United
States.
After I became the state boy's work secretary, my
headquarters were moved to Louisville and the Boy Scout troop
in Frankford was expanded and a council organized with four
troops in Frankford.
In 1917 I went with the National Council
as a special field commission and remained with the National
Council of Boy Scouts of America until October 1, 1947 when I was
automatically retired because I had reached the age of 65.
I spent a few months in South Alabama where I had a little property,
then came back to Chattanooga whece I was associated with Jake
Bishop in General Insurance and for a time, lived at Johnson
City.
In 1948 we came back to Watauga County primarily because
in 1930 and '31, we had built a very modern residence across
Cove Creek from Henson's Chapel Methodist Church.
At that time
it was called Amantha, and we lived there until we traded that
property with Gene Wilson and officially moved to Boone.
1949 Watauga County celebrated its 100th anniversary,
In
and I
was elected president of the Watauga'.Centennial, and we produced
a type of play called "Echoes of the Blue Ridge" and published
a brief history written by Dr. Whitener as a history of Watauga
County.
In 1912 after graduation from the Grant University
Branch at Athens, I came back to Watauga County as (principal
of Cove Creek Academy which was an imaginary high school and
taught school until about the middle of January, 1903 when I
went to the American University for a short post graduate
course, ant it was at Cove Creek Academy that I met Mary Swift
then a student, which in 1919 became my wife.
We lived in Memphis
for a while and then moved to Chattanooga and eventually came back
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to Watauga County to live, and the family has been here ever since.
In 1949 I recommended to the Chamber of Commerce that we should
develop industry to balance what was then a college and tourist
business as about the only industry.
The Board of the
Chamber
of Commerce was not sympathetic at that time to developing industry, but within a year or so, that became one of their major
projects, and as secretary of the industry committee, I directed
the campaign to supplement the purchase price of property for
IRC, and had an important part in bringing industry to Boone,
which was the first of the major industries coming here.
Later
the industry committee arranged with Shadowline to establish a
plant here, and after that, we found that Blue Ridge Show Co.
was disappointed in the location they had chosen for a new plant,
and persuaded the management to investigate Boone.
That was
other being a trip to New York made by Glenn Andrews and myself,
to interview Mr. Herb, then the president of the parent company
and he agreed to investigate Boone.
We did all the preliminary
work necessary to get Blue Ridge Shoe Co. to come to Boone,
including sale of bonds on their property, most of which was
bought finally by the Northwestern Bank, though several thousand s
of dollars of bonds were bought by local citizens.
Later, the
industry committee was successful in persuading Vermont American
to establish their plant in Boone, and each of these instances, we
had to supplement the land purchase for the new company, and I
had the privilege of conducting the finance campaign, all of
which was easily successful.
One of my big contributions to
Boone and Watauga County was as a member and the chairman of the
board of Watauga Hospital, and conducted the finance campaign to
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to rennovate and improve the then Watauga County Hospital building.
This resulted in our acquiring our modern surgical department and
a very successful surgeon.
Also, with tie help of the state and
the Federal Government to build a nurses home all of which became
part of Watauga Hospital.
Later, when the people of the county
divided the money through bonds, the modern Watauga Hospital, this
property was transferred to the college and later became part of
the equipment of Appalachian State University.
If I have been any
value to Watauga County primarily it has been in developing these
industries and providing opportunity for people in Watauga County
to get employment at good wages, and this has resulted in many
homes and smaller businesses that would not have come without these
manufacturing industries to provide the employment.
I'm still
secretary-treasurer of the industry committee and a member of the
board of most of the organizations that continued to have a responsibility except to encourage and promote them.
We built the
building for Shadowline and they operated it on a rental basis for
a few years and then bought it, and we bmilt the building for
the Blue Ridge Shoe Co. which they still operate on a rental basis.
Same is true with Vermont American which is operated on a rental
basis as far as the building is concerned.
The "Echoes of the
Blue Ridge" finally developed into "Horn in the West" and has
been one of the great advertising projects for Boone and Watauga
County.
It resulted from an invitation to Kermit Hunter to be
the speaker at the Chamber of Commerce where we persuaded him
to write the story, and we conducted a finance campaign for the
money to build the theatre for "Horn in the West" and again I
had the privilege of being the director of the finance campaign.
That's about the story of my connection with the development of
industry and the "Horn in the West".
I have remained as an
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active worker in the Chamber of Commerce, but recently no v&ry
major projects.
Now, what other questions you want?
Q:
Weren't you also connected with Coleman's Tobacco Warehouses?
A:
Well, soon after I came here probably in 1950, Coleman employed
me as a sales supervisor and at that time had the radio program
promoting the tobacco warehouse and Boone as a tobacco market.
I'm still the sales supervisor for Coleman, though we have not
had a radio program as such for the last five years.
Before
Warehouse #1 burned, the year before that we sold in excess of
6 million pounds of tobacco at the Boone market.
Less than 1/3
of that tobacco came from Watauga County, and a considerable
proportion of it came from Tennessee and Virginia, but the tobacco
warehouse in Boone hasbeen a great help to the farmers, not only
in Watauga County, but in this whole section, and last year sold
in excess of 4 million pounds for mighty close to $3 million.
Q:
You organized the first Rotary Club, is that correct?
first
director?
A:
I was one of the group that organized the Rotary Club in Boone
and because I had previously been a Rotarian was elected the
district governor for District 780 which included all of Western
N. C. from Charlotte and West Jefferson through to Murphy some
40 clubs.
I'm still active in Rotary; I think it is a great service
organization.
Q:
What I'd like to ask you now is a few questions on the Depression.
When did the Great Depression start as best you can remember?
A:
Well, the Depression started in 1929.
We had had a very prosperous
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period after the war closed, and things were going great when the
Stock Market had a tremendous setback, and by 1931 we were in
perhaps the worst depression we had ever had.
This depression
didn't seriously effect me because I was then employed actually
by one of the Rockefeller Organizations, and they didn't cut my
salary, but salaries went down in many instances, more than 50%
and thousands of people were out of employment.
It was during
that time that I decided to build a rock house over in Cove Creek
and believe it or not, purchased well finished lumber at $14
a thousand, employed labor only one carpenter on the job got
more than 350 an hour, and he as the foreman in building the house
made a little more than that but not too much.
Common labor
could have been had for 100 an hour, but I couldn't persuade
myself to go quite that low and paid 150 an hour for common
labor.
The rock that built the house was delivered to the site
for a dollar a yard, and even the rock mason made about 750 an
hour which is not much more than 10% what the same would cost
today, and while we later sold the Cove Creek house to Gene
Wilson and his wife, we decided to live in an apartment, and
not finding what we wanted, we bought the lot on W. Queen St.
and built Westmont Apartments which five or six years ago we
sold to a corporation which now owns them, but I still manage the
apartments.
Q:
Where were you living at the start of the Great Depression?
A:
Well, we were living on Cove Creek though I was travelling
out of New York and came home about once a month for a few days,
and sort of kept track of things, but Mary and the children run
the house.
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Q:
How many were in the family at that time?
A:
We had two children:
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Stanley, Jr. who was born in 1923.
Wait
a minute, he was born in 1920, and Martha was born in 1923.
Q:
Was there a scarcity of food dtiring that time?
A:
No scarcity of food.
The scarcity was anything to buy it with,
and since my salary was continued, I made more clear money from
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1930 to 1936 than I had ever made-jfeior to that.
Q:
Did you raise any crops?
A:
We had a big garden, but as far as farming is concerned, I didn't
do any farming, anything that was done on the farm was done on a
rental basis, and that was not a cash render, but a percentage of the
income.
But we had a big garden, and I got some prestige as a grower
of roses, for we had a very beautiful rose garden.
Q:
What animals did you have on the farm?
A:
Well, part of the time we had a milk cow or two which Stanley
learned to milk as a 10 year old youngster, and we usually kept a
horse which he could ride or plow, but we made no attempt to be
farmers, but we did have a good vegetable garden along with the roses.
Q:
Were you familiar with any of the government projects during
the Depression?
A:
Not too much familiar with government projects during the Depression,
though during WW I, I was the federal director of the boys' working
reserve which organized boys to work to produce food during the war,
and a big part of that was done by Boy Scouts who produced the gardens
especially the big garden in Washington city which was down on the
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peninsula furnished vegetables not only for the White House, but
Walter Reed Hospital, major hotels in Washington, and was honored
frequently by a visit from Mrs. Wilson, wife of the President, and
on a few occassions President Wilson accompanied Mrs. Wilson to
the garden for she always picked up her own vegetables twice a week.
I didn't do the technical work; that was done by a man from the
agricultural department who supervised that big garden, but I promoted
the idea of boys doing things for the government not only making
gardens, but distributing literature, make Black Walnut surveys,
and numerous and sundry other things, but I had very little to do
with government projects during the Depression period.
Q:
Were prices higher or lower during the Depression?
A:
They were down at the bottom.
I don't know the figures, but
certainly meat prices weren't much more than 10% of the present price
today, and as far as I have any memory, there was an abundance of
food if you had the price to pay for it.
Q:
Did new ways of making money arise due to these conditions?
A:
I didn't make any money except my salary until I retired, but
since I retired I made considerable money out of projects I've been
interested in.
Q:
Do you remember any of the banks closing?
A:
Oh, yes.
The Watauga County Bank in which my wife and children
kept their deposit was closed, and their deposit frozen.
That
didn't affect me very much because I had continued to keep my account
in a bank in Chattanooga which, while it was frozen for a short time,
reorganized and went right on in business, and my frozen deposit was
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promptly reinstated.
But there was another bank or two in tte county
that was closed and if the Northwestern Bank hadn't taken over the
assets of the Watauga County Bank, the IE would have been a worse depression
in Watauga County.
But the Northwestern Bank took over the assets
of the Watauga County Bank and some months earlier Mrs. Harris sold
her stock in the Watauga County Bank, but most of the stockholders,
in fact, I suppose all of the stockholders lost their stock, and not
only that, they had to put up an amount equal to the base value of
their stock which was $100 a share before the Northwestern Bank took
it over.
And that was a real depression.
Q:
What were the community reactions to the banks closing?
A:
Well, of course everybody that had any interest in ttee bank,
particularly the stockholders were very much concerned and some of
them very bitter at the officers of the bank.
But they had loaned
too much money to too many people that couldn't pay and therefore
there was nothing that the officers of the bank could do but accept
the closing when that was decreed by the Federal Government.
Q:
Whom do you blame for the collapse of the banks?
A:
Oh, I think the officers of the bank were too liberal in their
loaning money, therefore, had a good many notes that weren't collectable.
Don't think that there was any one individual that was particularly
responsible.
It was the policy of the bank to loan money particularly
to farmers and a number of the farmers not only couldn't pay their notes,
but some of them lost their farms and that was one of the reasons
got so bitter at the bank.
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Q:
Did the schools change very much during the Depression?
A:
All the schools went on as far as the county schools are con-
cerned, teachers were paid $25, $35, or $45 a month but that was in
line with other things at that time so as well as I observed there
wasn't much let down in public school situation.
Q:
Did tfee businesses and country stores change very much?
A:
Well, some of the businesses went into bankruptcy, but not too
much change in the major businesses.
They weren't making money, but
nobody else was making money at that time so they went along with
the crowd.
Q:
What do you think caused the Depression?
A:
Well , I had an experience in connection with the Depression that
always stood out with me.
I went as the guest of a very prominent
stockbroker in New York to a dinner in Dallas.
Everybody was asking
him questions about how to get rich on the Stock Market, and he
finally got a little irritated at that attitude and g^ve them a good
lecture about trying to make money without working for it, and told them
that if that attitude kept up there was going to be a depression,
and hence I was sort of close to it.
What happened was, as he told
me later, he went back to New York and had the stocks that he held
analyzed and began to sell the stocks that they thought were dangerous,
and as they began to sell, prices began to go down.
I've always
thought that the fact of his starting to sell stocks was one of the
basic reasons why stocks began to go down.
Because if he were selling
stocks at a lower price, pretty soon everybody was looking for them at
that price.
And as a result, stocks went down, and that was the
beginning of the Great Depression.
Fact of it is, I had some stock
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that I paid as much as $20 a share for that went down to $1.25 a
y*''
share.
I didn't well(mine for several years after the Depression
was over and finally sold them for $60 a share instead of the $1.25
I would have gotten for them in 1931 or '32.
And that was an
illustration of what happened in the stock market.
Q:
Who was hurt worst by the Depression?
A:
Well, the common people are always hurt worst.
Laborers/ small
investors, small businesses—they were the ones that were really hurt.
Q:
Well, what do you think was best about the Depression?
A:
What was what?
Q:
What do you think was best about the Depression days?
A:
Well, it probably brought out the stamina of the American people
and showed that by hard work, they could still live even if they
didn't live like they had been accustomed to living.
But I think
it emphasized the importance of hard work and sticking to it which
would be valuable today.
Most of our trouble?today are because
people don't want to work and a good many people don't want to put
out their best at work, whether it be in building a house or running
a business.
Q:
How is life different today from life during the Depression?
A:
Well, it's only different in the luxuries we have.
had automobiles.
Very few people
You could buy a good Ford or a Chevrolet for four
or five hundred dollars, but most people didn't have four or five
hundred dollars.
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Q:
What do you like best about today's way of life?
A:
Well, I like the comfort of feeling that I have a reasonable
income, likely to have as much as I actually need as long as I live
which I hope to be at least another 10 years because I'm only 90
and I want to get to be 100.
Q: .if you could change anything about the way things are now, what
W^
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wouj-d/jwant to change and why?
A:
I'd want to change the willingness to work more than anything
else, and I think people are happier and live longer when they're
working and that's the reason I keep working now because if you•
keep busy whatever your job may be and try to put out the best you
can you don't have so much time to worry about the aches in your
knees and your back and so forth.
There could be a different
attitude toward life and willingness
to be done.
End of Tape #39
to do anything that needs
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13.
Q:
I would like to ask you some questions concerning your childhood.
A:
As a kid, I was connected with a lumber compantf.
There were
seven of we boys, and we did whatever work there was done on the
farm, but I happened to be down among the younger ones and the older
ones didn't like farm work, so by the time I was 12 or 13 I was the
chief on the farm, what little farming we did and one of the big jobs
was to get my two younger brothers to do what I thought was their part
in taking care of the farm.
Father did encourage it to get through
high school and we all did.
I was the only one of the three younger
boys that finished college, but we all got through high school.
But we didn't have any of the luxuries and we worked even as kids.
I
think one of the troubles with youth today and I don;t think there are
nearly as many of them as people think, but one of the troubles
is children are given too much and are not required to make an
adequate return for it.
I think you can spoil the child by giving
him too much maybe worse than if you made it pretty hard on them.
Q:
Could you give me the name of your parents and their birthplace?
A:
My father was William J. Harris and he was born out in the county
from Abingdon, Virginia, where his father owned considerable farmland.
My mother was born just this side of Mountain City, Tennessee,
on the road about 2 miles this side of Shouns.
Their education
was limited to grade school: I don't think that either one of them
ever went to college, but they appreciated the importance of their
children in getting an education, and while they didn't have back then
in those days too much money to help them through college they did
encourage us to make our own way so I worked my way through college
and that was good for me.
Q:
How much schooling did your brothers and sisters have?
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A:
All of them went to high school, what in those days was
considered high school.
My brother Kemp went to college to study
to be a minister and had the best education of any of us including me,
but he didn't go to college until after he had decided to go into
the ministry and that was when he was 25 or 30 years old.
He was like
a lot of other ministers now, young ministers, he went to college
and pastored a small church someplace, and managed to get through
college that way.
Q:
When you came to this area what sorts of churches were here?
A:
Well, over at Cove Creek where I taught school and where I lived,
there was a Methodist and a Baptist Church, Henson's Chapel and
Cove Creek Baptist Church which is still there, and so far as my
knowledge is concerned there was an Episcopal Church, a Methodist
Church, and a Baptist Church in Boone.
But I did not know too much
about them even when I was teaching school at Cove Creek.
Q:
To which church did most people in the community belong?
A:
Baptist.
Q:
What were they like at that time, and how have they changed?
A:
I don't see too much change ao far as the religious attitudes
concerned.
I think they're a little bit more liberal toward other
churches than they used to be, that's true to both Baptist and Methodist.
I think my father tried to give me the impression that all Catholics
had horns and tails and I learned that people in the Catholic Church
were just as fine as the people in some other churches so that seems
to be a drifting of not being so antagonistic toward some other and
I think that's true between the Baptist and the Methodist, all the others.
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Q:
How did this community get its name?
A:
Well, as far as I know it was the legend of Daniel Boone that gave
this particular community its name.
How much Daniel Boone really ever
stopped here is still a question; he undoubtedly passed through a few
times.
Q:
How and why was it formed in
A:
I don't know the answer to that; I suppose it just sort of grew up
as most places do to start with.
the first place?
I think the Dougherty boys and the
school has had a tremendous influence on the building of the town.
They
just had vision, they didn't have much to work with back in those days
but they got a school started and kept it going.
Q:
How has the community changed over the years?
A:
Well, it has changed a lot in the comforts of the people that live
in the community, other than that I don't see too much change.
A
large proportion of the people now are making pretty good wages and
they're living them up pretty largely.
Businesses have grown, some of
them tremendously.
Q:
Who have been
the community decision makers?
A:
Well, the folks at the Northwestern Bank have been a tremendous
influence in making the community.
Alfred Adams has been chairman
of the industry committee, and from a business standpoint there is
nothing that has even approached the importance of the industry
committee of the Chamber of Commerce in building the community from
a standpoint of industry.
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Q:
Have the Dougherty's been in this decision-making group?
A:
Yes/ very definitely.
One of the interesting things to me was that
back when I first came here, Dr. Blan Dougherty was very much opposed
to developing industry, but a few years later he had a very definite
change of mind and particularly in the promotion of the International
Resistance Company was very important promoter of industry.
Course
he had one love, and it was above everything else, and it was the
college which he built up from a little grade school to quite a
sizeable college and laid the foundations for a tremendous growth
that happened under Dr. Plemmons as President and is still happening
under Dr. Wey.
Q:
Could you give me any other names of really important decision
makers in the community?
A:
Well, I think Clyde Greene and Russell Hodges were of tremendous
importance, and Winklers have been important promoters, especially
Ralph and Gordon, and the three Wilcox boys-Herman, Charlie, Dempsey
have been tremendously important people in developing the community.
Q:
Would you list the Farthings and the Councills among these also?
A:
Well, Farthings and Councills held a lot of property and Grady
Farthing has been tremendously important as president of the Watauga
Savings and Loan which when I first became connected with it had assets
of very much less than $500,000.
Now I understand their assets are
listed at about 36 million; Grady Farthing has been tremendously important
in that connection.
Some of the best citizens in the county were
Farthings, but Grady stands out as the high man so far as promoting
the community is concerned.
Q:
Are there any minority groups in the community?
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A:
Oh, yes.
There are minority groups, but they're much better off
than they are in cities, and we don't have much trouble with the
minority groups whether they be black, or something else.
Q:
Were some families poorer than others?
A:
Oh, sure!
That's true today.
Some families barely lived while
others were living in luxury.
Q:
Did the others look out for them to a certain extent?
A:
A little, not much.
Q:
How many people were in the community?
A:
Well, the first time I came to Boone, there must not been over
300 or 400 people living in what is now Boone.
There weren't any
paved streets or even MacAdamized streets, there were jyst mud roads
and when it rained they were really mud roads.
Q:
Has the population changed greatly?
A:
Numerically, of course, it has changed greatly.
A large number of
people now living in Boone lived in the county but a greater number of
people lived outside.
tremendous difference.
From an educated standpoint, there's a very
Back, when I first came here there was very
few that you could call educated.
Now, a large portion of the
population is at least high school educated.
A very large proportion
of the high school graduates go on to college.
Q:
Do you think that there'ivas a certain time that the population
change was greater, or was there a sudden influx of people, or was there
a gradual change over the years?
A:
Well, while there was a gradual change, there have been two or three
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instances where there
was an influx, and the last five years have
probably been the worst, or the best whichever one you want to put it.-,
Q:
Concerning transportation, how did the people get around in the
community?
A:
Back then they walked, or rode a mule, some of the better ones
had a buggy, the automobiles finally came, and very few had automobiles,
but it kept picking up and picking up and automobile companies
have probably sold more new cars this year, 10 to 1 than there were
in the county in 1947 when I came back here.
Q:
Where did the roads and railroads run?
A:
Well, of course 421 was mapped out east and west of Boone, 321 and
221 were mapped out but they weren't paved or fixed up.
The road to
Blowing Rock was one of the best, but that was organized as a toll
road and they had to pay toll to go over it, and county roads were
generally poor and generally dirt.
Paving of the roads has been done
in the last 20 years, mostly.
Q:
When were the railroads built?
A:
Well, the Tweetsie Railroad built into here, I think, was built
back > in the teens, and was built primarily as a lumber road, though
they had passenger coaches.
Pact of it is, the railroad didn't come
beyond Cranberry when I was a boy and the first train I ever rode on
was Tweetsie from Elk Park all the way to Cranberry, but I remember
very well how afraid I was of it, that my brother carried me on board,
and I got down to Cranberry, and that was about 81-83 years ago.
They built on up here after the William Ritter Lumber Co. had developed
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Pineola, which they called Saganaw, and pretty largely, and the
Linville River Railway came on into Boone, but both of them from
Cranberry to Boone was primarily built for lumber.
Q:
Are you very familiar with any of the mountain crafts or
customs?
A:
No, not familiar enough to talk about it.
Q:
Are you familiar with the folktales, legends, and superstitions
of this area?
A:
Well, I'm not too familiar with that.
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In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region.
The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students.
Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU.
An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school.
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Interview with Stanley Harris Sr, March 30, 1973
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Stanley Harris Sr. was born on October 31, 1882 in Johnson County, Tennessee. He went to high school in Montezuma, North Carolina and then continued his education in Athens, Tennessee at U.S. Grant University. He wene to post graduate school at American University in Harriman, Tennessee. Mr. Harris had many different occupations throughout his life including salesman at a furniture store in Lexington, Kentucky, assistant secretary of YMCA in Frankford, Tenessee, and boardman on the National Council of Boy Scouts of America in 1917. He moved back to Watauga County in 1948, where he was part of the Watauga Centennial and secretary of Chamber of Commerce. He was a big influence on bringing industries to Boone, North Carolina.
Mr. Harris talks about the effects the Great Depression had on him while at that time he was emplyed by one of Rockafeller's orgnizations. He does explains how the banks were affected and what he believes caused the Great Depression based on his experience with the stock market. When asked about his childhood, Mr. Harris recollects his experience working, explains his family education, and describes the religious community. He then talks about Boone and describes how the minority groups of Boone are treated.
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The Kirby and Eller Family Letters contain correspondence between the Kirby and Eller families of Ashe County, North Carolina. The letters focus mainly on day-to-day events such as planting and harvesting crops, health and illness, and household tasks, but also include references to the Civil War. The original letters of Collection 495 Kirby and Eller Family Letters, 1826-1938 are in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection.
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<p><span class="less">Elizabeth “Bettie” Kirby (1851-1925) was born on February 15th, 1851 in Meadow Creek, Virginia, to parents Joel Kirby and Frances Roberts. Millard F. Kirby, Samuel J. Kirby, Emory T. Kirby, and Ada B. Kirby were her siblings. She married Joseph Lafayette Eller on September 22, 1875 in Ashe County, NC, where she lived until her death on December 9, 1925.<br /><br />Luke Eller (1806-1883) was born on June 8, 1806 in Ashe Co., NC. He was married to Sarah King<span class="elipses"></span></span><span class="more"> on March 27, 1829 in Ashe Co. He is the father of Joseph Lafayette Eller (Elizabeth’s husband), Hansford Eller, and Aswell Eller. Luke Eller lived in Ashe Co. until his death on December 6, 1883.</span></p>
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Appalachian State University • Collection 111, Tape 39, 40
Interviewee: Stanley Harris
Interviewer: Bill Brinkley
20 March 1973
This is an interview with Mr. Stanley Harris, Hr., for the Appalachian Oral History Project by Bill
Brinkley at Boone on March 20, 1973.
BB: Bill Brinkley
SH: Stanley Harris, Sr.
BB: Mr. Harris, could you give us your age and place of birth?
SH: Well, I was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, where the name of the place was Trade, which
is just over the line from North Carolina, on October 31, 1882.
BB: How long have you lived in this community?
SH: When I was two years old, my father moved to what is now Montezuma, North Carolina
and I stayed there until I finished high school and in 1902 I went to college at Athens,
Tennessee which at that time was part of U.SH. Grant University, main part being located in
Chattanooga, but the liberal arts department was at Athens. That has since changed to
Tennessee Wesleyan College. I graduated in 1902, and took a postgraduate course as what was
then the American University at Harriman, Tennessee. Later, that was sold and the American
University was closed. At the close of the school in 1903, I went to work for a furniture factory
in Harriman, Tennessee and a year later moved to Lexington, Kentucky and worked there in a
furniture store as a salesman.
In 1907, I became the assistant secretary of the YMCA at Frankfort, Kentucky and in 1912,
became the secretary of the YMCA there. In 1916, became the state boys work secretary of the
YMCA. In 1908, started a Boy Scout troop under the British Scout Association which troop was
recognized and chartered in December 1908. And it became, so far as we can find any history,
the first chartered Boy Scout troop in the United States. After I became the state boy’s work
secretary, my headquarters were moved to Louisville and the Boy Scout troop in Frankfort was
expanded and a council organization with four troops in Frankfort.
In 1917, I went with the National Council as a special field commission and remained with the
National Council of the Boy Scouts of America until October 1, 1947, when I was automatically
retired because I had reached the age of 65. I spent a few months in South Alabama where I
had a little property, then came back to Chattanooga, where I was associated with Jake Bishop
in General Insurance, and for a time lived in Johnson City.
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�In 1948, we came back to Watauga County primarily because in 1930 and 1931, we had built a
very modern residence across Cove Creek from Henson’s Chapel Methodist Church. At that
time it was called Amantha, and we lived there until we traded that property with Gene Wilson
and officially moved to Boone. In 1949, Watauga County celebrated its 100th anniversary, and I
was elected president of the Watauga Centennial, and we published a brief history written by
Dr. Whitener as a history of Watauga County.
In 1902, after graduation from the Grant University branch at Athens, I came back to Watauga
County as principal of Cove Creek Academy, which was kind of a high school and taught school
until about the middle of January 1903, when I went to the American University for a short post
graduate course, and it was at Cove Creek Academy that I met Mary Swift, then a student,
which in 1919 became my wife. We lived in Memphis for a while and then moved to
Chattanooga and eventually came back to Watauga County to love, and the family has been
here ever since.
In 1949, I recommended to the Chamber of Commerce that we should develop industry to
balance what was then a college and tourist business as about the only industry. The board of
the chamber of commerce was not sympathetic at that time to developing industry, but within
a year or so, that became one of their major projects, and as secretary of the industry
committee I directed the campaign to supplement the purchase price of property for IRC, and
had an important part in bringing industry to Boone, which was the first of the major industries
coming here. Later, the industry committee arranged with Shadowline to establish a plant here,
and after that, we found that Blue Ridge Shoe Company was disappointed in the location they
had chosen as a new plant, and persuaded the management to investigate Boone.
We did all the preliminary work necessary to get the Blue Ridge Shoe Company to come to
Boone, including sale of bonds on their property, most of which was brought finally by the
Northwestern Bank, though several thousands of dollars of bonds were brought by local
citizens. Later, the industry committee was successful in persuaded Vermont American to
establish their plant in Boone, and each of these instances; we had to supplement the land
purchase for the new company. I had the privilege of conducting the finance campaign, all of
which was easily successful.
One of my big contributions to Boone and Watauga County was as a member and the chairman
of the board of Watauga Hospital, and conducted the finance campaign to renovate and
improve the then Watauga County Hospital building. This resulted in our acquiring our modern
surgical department and a very successful surgeon. Also, with the help of the state and federal
government to build a nurses home all of the county divided the money through bonds, the
modern Watauga Hospital, this property was transferred to the college and later became a part
of the equipment of Appalachian State University.
If I have been any value to Watauga County, primarily it has been in developing these industries
and providing opportunity for people in Watauga County to get employment at good wages,
and this has resulted in many homes and smaller businesses that would not have come without
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�these manufacturing industries to provide the employment. I’m still secretary-treasurer of the
industry committee and a member of the board of most of the organizations that continued to
have a responsibility except to encourage and promote them.
We built the building for Shadowline and they operated it on a rental basis for a few years and
then bought it, and we built the building for the Blue Ridge Shoe Company, which they still
operate on a rental basis. Same is true with the Vermont American that is operated on a rental
basis as far as the building is concerned. The “Echoes of the Blue Ridge” finally developed into
“Horn in the West” and has been one of the great advertising projects for Boone and Watauga
County.
It resulted from an invitation to Kermit Hunter to be the speaker at the Chamber of Commerce
where we persuaded him to write the story, and we conducted a finance campaign for the
money to build the theatre for the “Horn in the West” and again I had the privilege of being the
director of the finance campaign. That’s about the story of my connection with the
development of industry and the “Horn in the West.” I have remained as an active worker in
the Chamber of Commerce, but recently no major projects. Now, what other questions do you
want answered?
BB: Were you also connected with Coleman’s Tobacco Warehouse?
SH: Well, soon after I came here probably in 1950, Coleman employed me as a sales supervisor
and at that time had the radio program promoting the tobacco warehouse and Boone as a
tobacco market. I’m still the sales supervisor for Coleman, though we have not had a radio
program as such for the last five years. Before warehouse #1 burned, the year before that we
sold in excess of six million pounds of tobacco ant the Boone market. Less than 1/3 of that
tobacco came from Watauga County, and a considerable proportion of it came from Tennessee
and Virginia, but the tobacco warehouse in Boone has been a great help to the farmers, not
only in Watauga County, but in this whole section, and last year sold in excess of four million
pounds for mighty close to $3 million.
BB: You organized the first Rotary Club, is that correct? First director?
SH: I was one of the group that organized the Rotary Club in Boone and because I had
previously been a Rotarian was elected the district governor for District 780 which included all
of Western, N.C. from Charlotte and West Jefferson through to Murphy, some 40 clubs.
BB: What I’d like to ask you now is a few questions on the Depression. When did the Great
Depression start as best you can remember?
SH: Well, the Depression started in 1929. We had a very prosperous period after the war
closed, and things were going great when the Stock Market had a tremendous setback, and by
1931 we were in perhaps the worst Depression we had ever had. This Depression didn’t
seriously affect me because I was then employed actually by one of the Rockefeller
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�organizations, and they didn’t cut my salary, but salaries went down in many instances, more
than 50% and thousands of people were out of work. It was during that time I decided to build
a rock house over in Cove Creek and believe it or not, purchased well finished lumber at $14 a
thousand, employed labor only one carpenter on the job got more than 35 cents an hour, and
he as the foreman in building the house made a little more than that but not much more.
Common labor could have been had for ten cents an hour, but I couldn’t persuade myself to go
quite that low and paid 15 cents an hour for common labor. The rock that built the house was
delivered to the site for a dollar a yard, and even the rock mason made about 75 cents and
hour, which is not much more than 10% what the same would cost today, and while we later
sold the Cove Creek house to Gene Wilson and his wife, we decided to live in an apartment, and
not finding what we wanted, we bought the lot on W. Queen Street and built West Apartments,
which five or six years ago we sold to a corporation which now owns them, but I still manage
the apartments.
BB: Where were you living at the start of the Great Depression?
SH: Well, we were living on Cove Creek though I was travelling out of New York and came home
about once a month for a few days, and sort of kept track of things, but Mary and the children
ran the house.
BB: How many were in the family at that time?
SH: We had two children: Stanley, Jr. who was born in 1923. Wait a minute, he was born in
1920, and Martha was born in 1923.
BB: Was there a scarcity of food during that time?
SH: No scarcity of food. The scarcity was anything but, and since my salary was continued, I
made more clear money from 1930 to 1936 than I had ever made prior to that.
BB: Did you raise crops?
SH: We had a big garden, but as far as farming is concerned, I didn’t do any farming. Anything
that was done on the farm was done on a rental basis, and that was not a cash binder, but a
percentage of the income. But we had a big garden, and I got some prestige as a grower of
roses, for we had a very beautiful rose garden.
BB: What animals did you have on the farm?
SH: Well, part of the time we had a milk cow or two which Stanley learned to milk as a ten year
old youngster, and we usually kept a horse that we could ride or plow, but we made no attempt
to be farmers, but we did have a good vegetable garden along with the roses.
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�BB: We’re you familiar with any of the government projects during the Depression?
SH: Not too much familiar with government projects during the Depression, though during
World War One, I was a federal director of the boy’s working reserve, which organized boys to
work to produce food during the war, and a big part of that was done by Boy Scouts who
produced the gardens especially the big garden in Washington, D.C.. The garden was down on
the peninsula that furnished vegetables not only for the White House, but Walter Reed
Hospital, major hotels in Washington, and was honored frequently by a visit from Mrs. Wilson,
wife of the president, and on a few occasions President Wilson accompanied Mrs. Wilson to the
garden for she always picked up her own vegetables twice a week. I didn’t do the technical
work that was done by a man from the agricultural department who supervised that big
garden, but I promoted the idea of boys doing things for the government not only making
gardens, but distributing literature, making Black Walnut surveys, and numerous sundry other
things, but I had very little to do with government projects during the Depression years.
BB: Were prices higher or lower during the Depression?
SH: They were down at the bottom. I don’t know the figures, but certainly meat prices weren’t
much more than 10% of the present price today, and as far as I have any memory, there was
abundance of food if you had to pay for it.
BB: Did new ways of making money arise due to these conditions.
SH: I didn’t make any money except my salary until I retired, but since I retired I made
considerable money out of projects I’ve been interested in.
BB: Do you remember any of the banks closing?
SH: Oh, yes. The Watauga County Bank in which my wife and children kept their deposit was
closed, and their deposit frozen. That’d didn’t affect me very much because I had continued to
keep my account in a bank in Chattanooga which, while it was frozen for a short time,
reorganized and went right on in business, and from my frozen deposit was promptly
reinstated. But there was another bank or two in the county that was closed and if the
Northwestern Bank hadn’t taken over the assets of the Watauga County Bank, there would
have been a worse Depression in Watauga County. But the Northwestern Bank took over the
assets of the Watauga County, and some months earlier Mrs. Harris sold her stock in the
Watauga County Bank, but most of the stockholders, in fact, I suppose all of the stockholders
lost their stock, and not only that, they had to put up an amount equal to the base value of
their stock, which was $100 a share before the Northwestern Bank took it over. And that was a
real Depression.
BB: What were the community reactions to the bank’s closing?
SH: Well, of course, everybody that had any interest in the bank, particularly the stockholders
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�were very much concerned and some of them very bitter at the officers of the bank. By they
had loaned too much money to too many people that couldn’t pay and therefore there was
nothing that the officers of the bank could do but accept the closing when that was decreed by
the federal government.
BB: Whom do you blame for the collapse of the bank?
SH: Oh, I think the officers of the bank were too liberal in their loaning money, therefore, had a
very good many notes that weren’t collectable. I don’t think that there was any one individual
that was particular responsible. It was the policy of the bank to loan money particularly to
farmers and a number of the farmers not only couldn’t pay their notes, but some of them lost
their farms and that was one of the reasons they go so bitter at the bank.
BB: Did the schools change very much during the Depression?
SH: All the schools went on as far as the country schools are concerned, teachers were paid
$25, $35, or $45 a month, but that was in line with other things at that time, so as well as I
observed there wasn’t much let down in public school situation.
BB: Did the businesses and country stores change very much?
SH: Well, some of the businesses and went into bankruptcy, but not too much change in the
major businesses. They weren’t making money, but nobody else was making money at that
time, so they went along with the crowd.
BB: What do you think caused the Depression?
SH: Well, I had an experience in connection with the Depression that always stood out with me.
I went as the guest of a very prominent stockbroker to a dinner in Dallas. Everybody was asking
him questions about how to get rich on the stock market, and he finally got a little irritated at
that attitude and gave them a good lection about trying to make money without working for it,
and told them that if that attitude kept up there was going to be a Depression, and hence I was
sort of close to it.
What happened was, as he told me later, he went back to New York, and had the stocks that he
held analyzed and began to sell the stocks that they thought were dangerous, and as they
began to sell, prices began to go down. I’ve always thought that the fact of his starting to sell
stocks was one of the basic reasons why stocks began to go down.
Because if he were selling stocks at a lower price, pretty soon everybody was looking for them
at that price. And as a result, stocks went down, and that was the beginning of the Great
Depression. Fact of it is, I had some stock that I paid as much as $20 a share for that went down
to $1.25 a share. I didn’t sell mine for several years after the Depression was over and finally
sold them for $60 a share instead of the $1.25 that I would have gotten for them in 1931, or
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�1932. And that was an illustration of what happened in the stock market.
BB: Who was hurt worst by the Depression?
SH: Well, the common people are always hurt worst. Laborers, small investors, small
businesses. They were the ones that were really hurt.
BB: Well, what do you think was best about the Depression?
SH: What was that?
BB: What do you think was best about the Depression days?
SH: Well, it probably brought out the stamina of the American people and showed that by hard
work, they could still live, even if they didn’t live like they had been accustomed to living. But I
think it emphasized the importance of hard work and striking with it that would be valuable
today. Most of our troubles today are because people don’t want to work and a good many
people don’t want to put out their best at work, whether it be in building a house or running a
business.
BB: How is life different today from life during the Depression?
SH: Well, it’s only different in the luxuries we have. Very few people had automobiles. You
could buy a good Ford or a Chevrolet for four or five hundred dollars, but most people didn’t
have four or five hundred dollars.
BB: What do you like best about today’s way of life?
SH: Well, I like the comfort of feeling that I have a reasonable income, likely to have as much as
I actually need as long as I live. I hope to be at least another ten years because I’m only 90 and I
want to get to be 100.
BB: If you could change anything about the way things are now, what would you want to
change and why?
SH: I’d want to change the willingness to work more than anything else, and I think people are
happier and live longer when they’re working and that’s the reason I keep working now,
because if you keep busy whatever your job may be and try to put out the best you can. You
don’t have so much time to worry about the aches in your knees and your back and so forth.
There could be a different attitude toward life and willingness to do anything that needs to be
done.
BB: I would like to ask you some questions concerning your childhood.
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�SH: As a kid, I was connected with a lumber company. There were seven of boys and we did
whatever work there was done on the farm, but I happened to be down among the younger
ones and older ones didn’t like farm work, so by the time I was 12 or 13 was the ‘chief on the
farm.’ What little farming we did and one of the big jobs was to get my younger brothers to do
what I thought was their part in taking care of the farm.
Father did encourage us to get through high school and we all did. I was the only one of the
three younger boys that finished college, but we all got through high school. We didn’t have
any of the luxuries and we worked even as kids. I think one of the troubles with youth today
and I don’t think there are nearly as many of them as people think, but one of the troubles is
that children are given too much and are not required to make an adequate return for it. I think
you can spoil the child by giving him too much maybe worse than if you made it pretty hard on
them.
BB: Could you give me the name of your parents and their birthplace?
SH: My father was William J. Harris and he was born out in the county from Abingdon, Virginia,
where his father owned considerable farmland. My mother was born just this side of Mountain
City, Tennessee, on the road about two miles this side of Shouns (Tennessee). Their education
was limited to grade school. I don’t think either one of them ever went to college, but they
appreciated the importance of their children getting an education, and while they didn’t have
back in those days much money to help them through college, they did encourage us to make
our own way so I worked my way through college and that was good for me.
BB: How much schooling did your brothers and sisters have?
SH: All of them went to high school, what in those days was considered high school. My brother
Kemp went to college to study to be a minister and had the best education of any of us,
including me, but he didn’t go to college until after he had decided to go into the ministry and
that was when he was 25 or 30 years old. He was like a lot of other ministers now, young
ministers, he went to college and pastored a small church some place, and managed to get
through college that way.
BB: Wen you came to this area what sorts of churches were there?
SH: Well, over in Cove Creek where I taught school and where I lived, there was a Methodist
and a Baptist church, Henson’s Chapel and Cove Creek Baptist Church that is still there. So far as
my knowledge is concerned there was an Episcopal church, a Methodist church, and a Baptist
church in Boone. But I did not know too much about them even when I was teaching at Cove
Creek.
BB: To which church did most people in the community belong?
SH: Baptist.
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�BB: What were they like at that time and how have they changed?
SH: I don’t see too much change so far as the religions attitudes concerned. I think they’re a
little bit more liberal toward other churches than they used to be, that’s true to both Baptist
and Methodist. I think my father tried to give me the impression that all Catholics had “horns
and trails” and I learned that people in the Catholic Church were just as fine as the people in
some other churches so that seems to be a drifting of not being so antagonistic toward some
other and I think that’s true between the Baptist and the Methodist, all the others.
BB: How did this community get its name?
SH: Well, as far as I know it was the legend of Daniel Boone that gave this particular community
its name. How much Daniel Boone really ever stopped here is still a question. He undoubtedly
passed through a few times.
BB: How and why was it formed in the first place?
SH: I don’t know the answer to that; I suppose it was just sort of grew up as most places do to
start with. I think that the Dougherty boys and the school had had a tremendous influence on
the building of the town. They just had vision, they didn’t have much to work with back in those
days but they got a school started and kept it going.
BB: How had the community changed over the years?
SH: Well, it has changed a lot in the comforts of the people that lived in the community, other
than that I don’t see too much change. A large proportion of the people now are making pretty
good wages and they’re living them up pretty large. Businesses have grown, some of them
tremendously.
BB: Who have been the community decision makers?
SH: Well, the folks at the Northwestern Bank have been a tremendous influence in making the
community. Alfred Adams has been chairman of the industry committee, and from a business
standpoint there is nothing that has even approached the importance of the industry
committee of the Chamber of Commerce in building the community from a standpoint of
industry.
BB: Have the Dougherty’s been in this decision making group?
SH: Yes, very definitely. One of the interesting things to me was that back when I first came
here, Dr. Blan Dougherty was very much opposed to developing industry, but a few years later
he had a very definite change of mind and particularly in the promotion of the International
Resistance Company (IRC) and a very important promoter of industry. Of course he had one
love, and it was above everything else, and it was the college, which he built up from a little
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�grade school to a quite sizeable college and laid the foundations for a tremendous growth that
happened under Dr. Plemmons as president and is still happening under Dr. Wey.
BB: Could you give me any other names of really important decision makers in the community?
SH: Well, I think Clyde Greene and Russell Hodges were of tremendous importance, and the
Winklers have been important promoters, especially Ralph and Gordon. The three Wilcox boys
– Herman, Charlie, and Dempsey have been tremendously important people in developing this
community.
BB: Would you list the Farthings and the Councills among these also?
SH: Well, the Farthings and Councills held a lot of property and Grady Farthing has been
tremendously important as president of the Watauga Savings and Loan which, when I first
became connected with it, had assets of very much less than $500,000. Now I understand their
assets are listed at about 36 million. Grady Farthing has been tremendously important in that
connection. Home of the best citizens in the county were Farthings, but Grady stands out as the
high man so far as promoting the community is concerned.
BB: Are there any minority groups in the community?
SH: Oh, yes. There are minority groups, but they’re much better off than they are in cities, and
we don’t have much trouble with the minority groups whether they be black or something else.
BB: Were some families poorer than others?
SH: Oh, sure! That’s true today. Home families barely lived while others were living in luxury.
BB: Did the others look out for them to a certain extent?
SH: A little, not much.
BB: How many people were in the community?
SH: Well, the first time I came to Boone, there must not have been over 300 or 400 people
living in what is now Boone. There weren’t any paced streets or even “MacAdamized” streets,
there were just mud roads and when it rained they were really muddy roads.
BB: Has the population changed greatly?
SH: Numerically, of course, it has changed greatly. A large number of people now living in
Boone lived in the county but a greater number of people lived outside. From an educated
standpoint, there’s a very tremendous difference. Back when I first came here there was very
few that you could called educated. Now, a large portion of the population is at least high
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�school educated. A very large proportion of the high school graduates go on to college.
BB: Do you think there was a certain time that the population changed was greater, or was
there a sudden influx of people, or was there a gradual change over the years?
SH: Well, while there was a gradual change, there have been two or three instances where
there was an influx, and the last five years have properly been the worse, or the best whichever
one you want to put it.
BB: Concerning transportation, how did people get around in the community?
SH: Back then they walked, or rode a mule. Home of the better ones had a buggy. The
automobile finally came, and very few had automobiles, but it kept picking up and picking up
and automobile companies have probably sold more new cars this year, ten to one than there
were in the county in 1947 when I came back here.
BB: Where did the roads and railroads run?
SH: Well, of course 421 was mapped out east and west of Boone, 321 and 221 were mapped
out but they weren’t paved or fixed up. The road to Blowing Rock was one of the best, but that
was organized as a toll road and you had to pay a toll to go over it. The county roads were
generally poor and generally dirt. Paving the roads has been done in the last 20 years, mostly.
BB: When were the railroads built?
SH: Well, the Tweetsie Railroad built into here, I think, was built back in the teens, and was built
primarily as a lumber road, though they had passenger coaches. Fact of it is, the railroad didn’t
come beyond Cranberry when I was a boy and the first train that I ever road on was the
Tweetsie from Elk Park all the way to Cranberry, but I remember very well how afraid I was of
it. My brother carried me onboard, and I got down to Cranberry, and that was about 81-83
years ago.
They built on up here (to Boone) after the William Ritter Lumber Company had developed
Pineola, which they called Saginaw largely, and the Linville River Railway came on into Boone,
but both of them from Cranberry to Boone was primarily built for lumber.
BB: Are you familiar with any of the mountain crafts or customs?
SH: No, not familiar enough to talk about it.
BB: Are you familiar with the folktales, legends, or superstitions of this area?
SH: Well, I’m not too familiar with that.
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Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews
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In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University (ASU) began the process of collecting interviews from Watauga, Avery, Ashe, and Caldwell county citizens to learn about their respective lives and gather stories. From the outset of the project, the interviewers knew that they were reaching out to the “last generation of Appalachian residents to reach maturity before the advent of radio, the last generation to maintain an oral tradition.” The goal was to create a wealth of data for historians, folklorists, musicians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in the Appalachian Region.
The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and developed in a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. Predominately funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the four schools by 1977 had amassed approximately 3,000 interviews. Each institution had its own director and staff. Most of the interviewers were students.
Outgrowths of the project included the Mountain Memories newsletter that shared the stories collected, an advisory council, a Union Catalog, photographs collected, transcripts on microfilm, and the book Our Appalachia. Out of the 3,000 interviews between the three schools, only 663 transcripts were selected to be microfilmed. In 1978, two reels of microfilm were made available with 96 transcripts contributed by ASU.
An annotated index referred to as The Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog was created to accompany the microfilm. The catalog is broken down into five sections starting with a subject topic index such as Civilian Conservation Corps, Coal Camps, Churches, etc. The next four sections introduced the interviewees by respective school. There was an attempt to include basic biographic information such as date of birth, location, interviewer name, length of interview, and subjects discussed. However, this information was not always consistent per school.
This online project features clips from the interviews, complete transcripts, and photographs. The quality and consistency of the interviews vary due to the fact that they were done largely by students. Most of the photos are missing dates and identifying information.
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Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989
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1965-1989
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Harris, Stanley (interviewee)
Brinkley, Bill (interviewer)
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03:07, Depression; 01:44 Work ethic
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Interview with Stanley Austin Harris, date unknown
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Stanley Austin Harris was born on October 31, 1882 in Trade, Tennessee, and reared in Avery County. The son of a Confederate officer, after graduating from Tennessee Wesleyan College in 1903, he worked for the Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.) in Kentucky where he was introduced to the British Boy Scout movement. He chartered a troop from the British Scouting movement in 1908, two years before the Scouting program was established in the United States.
He started working for the Boy Scouts of America in 1917 until his retirement in 1947 at the national office in New York City. In 1926, he was the director of the Interracial Service where his responsibility was to build positive relationships with African American and Native American communities across the nation.
The Harris family lived in Boone while he worked in New York City, but would commute by train every few weeks. In 1942, Stanley Harris was awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities from the historically black university Tuskegee Institute; the first Caucasian to receive this honor. Upon retiring, he lived in Boone and was very active with local businesses and civic groups.
During the interview he focuses largely on his retired life and talks about his childhood, the Depression, and Boone history.
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<a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a>
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Copyright for the interviews on the Appalachian State University Oral History Collection site is held by Appalachian State University. The interviews are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Appalachian State Collection 111. Appalachian Oral History Project Records, 1965-1989, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of the Appalachian State University, is strictly prohibited.
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MP3
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12 pages
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English
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Sound
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Avery County (N.C.)
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Watauga County (N.C)
Subject
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Harris, Stanley Austin--Interviews
Boy Scouts of America
Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Watauga County (N.C.)--History--20th century
Avery County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Tennessee--Social life and customs--20th century
Avery County
Boone
Boy Scouts of America
Depression
Kentucky
Rotary Club
Stanley Harris
Tennessee Wesleyan College
Tennesssee
Tuskegee Institute
Watauga Centennial Celebration
Watauga County N.C.