Description: The Virginia Creeper in Ashe County, North Carolina, Images of Rail, Paperback West Jefferson did not exist until local entrepreneurs saw an opportunity to run the tracks from Whitetop Mountain in Virginia to North Carolina. In 1914, the Virginia Carolina Railroad came to Ashe County. Virgin timber grew in the mountains, luring the Hassenger Lumber Company into the area. Small sawmills and lumbering operations were located "up every holler," so the tracks were expanded into Elkland, known today as Todd. Until 1933, the train ran daily into the county, and communities such as Nella, Tuckerdale, Camrose, Bowie, Lansing, Warrensville, Berlin, and West Jefferson grew up along the tracks. The timber was gone by 1929, and when the Great Depression came, the Norfolk and Western Abingdon Line made the slow grinding haul up the mountain every week. During the 1950s and 1960s, the spectacular fall leaf displays made excursion trains popular for tourists. The last train ran in 1977, and the tracks in Ashe County were removed, leaving only a few vestiges to show the train was ever here.
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Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9780738588148
Book Title: Virginia Creeper in Ashe County
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Topic: United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, De, Fl, Ga, Md, Nc, SC, VA, WV), Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Railroads / Pictorial, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2011
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Transportation, Social Science, Photography, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Ashe County Historical Society
Book Series: Images of Rail Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
