A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails and Air
A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails and Air

Author: Terry Ruscin

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016-10-31

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1439658242

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Traveling across the treacherous and diverse landscape of western North Carolina is a challenge historically met with human ingenuity. Mountain traces of Native Americans, dusty stagecoach routes and vital railroads lined the region. Asheville installed the state's first electric streetcars. Intrepid young men and women continued North Carolina's aviation legacy. The Buncombe Turnpike helped tame the Blue Ridge Mountains, allowing livestock drives to reach markets in South Carolina. Author Terry Ruscin reveals the visionaries and risk-takers who paved the way to the "Land of the Sky" in a wondrous examination of western North Carolina transportation history.

Railroads of North Carolina
Railroads of North Carolina

Author: Alan Coleman

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008-03-03

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1439635447

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Since the opening of the first permanent railway in 1833, hundreds of railroad companies have operated in North Carolina. Rail transportation, faster and more efficient than other methods of the era, opened new markets for the products of North Carolina's farms, factories, and mines. Over the years, North Carolina rail companies have ranged in size from well-engineered giants like the Southern Railway to temporary logging railroads like the Hemlock. Cross ties and rails were laid across almost every conceivable terrain: tidal marshes, sand hills, rolling piedmont, and mountain grades. Vulnerable to the turbulent and unregulated economies of the day, few railroad companies escaped reorganizations and receiverships during their corporate lives, often leaving tangled and contradictory histories in their passing.

A History of Railroading in Western North Carolina
A History of Railroading in Western North Carolina

Author: Cary Franklin Poole

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780932807878

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In this work, the most comprehensive of its kind, the author examines in engaging narrative and wonderful photography the development of the area’s complete railroading industry—Class 1 railroads, short lines, industrial and mining roads, and logging lines. Added to the textual histories are more than three hundred photographs and illustrations, including timetables and maps for most of the lines discussed.

Paving Tobacco Road
Paving Tobacco Road

Author: Walter R. Turner

Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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This paperback book traces the development of the state agency responsible for North Carolina's highways from its beginnings in 1915 as the North Carolina State Highway Commission through the first years of the twenty-first century. One chapter is devoted to other forms of transportation, such as the state's ferry, bicycle, and rail programs. The author identifies many of the leaders, both political and professional, who helped to create North Carolina's entire transportation network.

Internal Improvements in Antebellum North Carolina
Internal Improvements in Antebellum North Carolina

Author: Alan D. Watson

Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780865263000

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Examines state-funded transportation improvements from the early years of the nineteenth century to the start of the Civil War. Individual chapters are devoted to roads, bridges, inland navigation, canals, inlets, railroads, and steam navigation. This book is available in an eBook edition under the title Transportation in Antebellum North Carolina.