July 29, 2009 by mcdowellcountyhistory
Robert Hawkins has deep family roots in McDowell County and was a mailman from 1954 to 1990. He sat down in his rocker by the fireplace in his Marion home to tell us about his father’s eyewitness account of the 1894 fire that destroyed nearly all of downtown, his grandmother’s story of Union raiders passing through her family’s farm during the Civil War and his own remembrances of delivering the mail (and other things) for 36 years.
Listen to the interview here:
The Historic Marion Depot
Old Fort Depot & Arrowhead Monument
The Wolfe Angel in the Old Fort Cemetery
Reunion of Descendants of Carson Slaves at the Carson House, July 2009
Brackettown Cemetery
Greenlee House
Marion in the 1920s
Marion in 1909
Point Lookout, from an old postcard
The "Hattie Butner" Stagecoach at the Eagle Hotel
The thrashers come to North Cove
The Original Little Switzerland Post Office and Store
The McDowell County Courthouse in the Early 1900s
Railroad Workers in Old Fort
Old Fort Depot
