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Carol Price
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McDowell County Tourism Development Authority
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we visited toms creek falls yesterday and also the mining cave.
what’s the history behind the cave and the masonry structures below the falls?
thanks
paul chapman
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Checked with Terrell Finley at the Mountain Gateway Museum and found out the cave is an old mica mine. No other information at this time. Will keep looking.
I grew up in North Cove. I am the great great grandson of John Seawell Brown who bought the Carson House from Col. Carson. Three generations of Brown’s lived in the house. John Seawell Brown was a two term state senator and was involved in the early development of McDowell County.
My wife and I have researched and published a scholarly article on the killing of two Italian railroad builders who are buried on what was my grandfather’s North Cove farm. Camp six, a huge railroad construction camp was on my grandfather’s (Henry Seawell Brown) land.
Freddy Brown, interveiwed on this site, likely a distant relative, was a school mate of mine at the old North Cove School.
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Hi,
I’m working on a similar oral history project in east London and really like the layout of this blog. Well done on creating a really interesting, easy-to-navigate and informative site! I wondered if I could contact the team who manage it and ask them for any tips about how to organise the material they gather?
My project is based around one community centre which was started in 1889 – we already have a lot of photographs and archive material and will be gathering oral history interviews in order to find out more about the area. I’m hoping to create a resource which is similar to this one for people interested in the history of social work, community and families in changing Britain.
Thanks,
Anna
Hi, Anna.
My name is Kim Clark, and I did most of the work on the McDowell County Oral History project. I would love to help you in any way possible. My email address is kim@eljapa.com. Please send me any questions you have.
Your project sounds very interesting. I am so glad to see the increasing interest in the history of the communities in which we live.
bought part of the king hill farm in shingle hollow 5 years ago. stopped by and asked about the hall house on cove road/montford road yesterday. house looks like it could be in tuscany. nice woman said her sister, name of hall, owned it, is deceased and left it to her children. she let me take a few pictures, i only had my cell. house is 100 years old. would you have any other info on this? what a lovely drive up to black mountain. thank you
This is a wonderful site that is assisting with my own family history research – thank you for the audio and video posts. I notice the interview with Binkie Adams has a transcript. I was also interested in the interview of Terrell Finley speaking about Col. Dan Adams. Is there a transcript of that available?
I’m so glad that the site is helpful to you.
Unfortunately, there is no transcript for Terrell’s presentation about Col. Adams.
I don’t know if you’re ever in Old Fort, but if you are, Bill Nichols of John’s Market is quite an expert on Col. Adams and was a good friend of Binkie’s. He’s a very shy fellow, but once he starts talking, he’s a wealth of information!
Thanks for writing.
Kim
One of the oral histories is an interview with my Uncle Lindol B Swofford and I would like to know if I can save his interview in my audio files. Can you tell me if this is possible? Thank you.
Francine Swofford