Railroad Builders: The Dunavant Family of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee
Railroad Builders: The Dunavant Family of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee

Author: Christopher Hunt Robertson, M.Ed.

Publisher: Christopher Hunt Robertson, M.Ed.

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1312361549

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By 1856, the Dunavants had begun building railroads and they would eventually be among the South's prominent railroad contractors. As they migrated from Virginia to North Carolina and Tennessee, they added to those regions new railroads, mills, hotels, golf clubs, dams and tunnels. For 73 years, from 1856 to 1929, their large-scale construction projects contributed substantially to the development of Southside Virginia, Western North Carolina (Morganton, Charlotte, Statesville, Asheville and Blowing Rock), Tennessee (Memphis), and other southern states. The naming of Dunavant Street in Charlotte paid homage to former resident and builder, Henry Jackson Dunavant. In downtown Morganton, Samuel David Dunavant organized Burke County’s first mill (the Dunavant Cotton Mnfg. Co., later known as the Alpine Cotton Mill); its building has been added to the National Historic Register. (2015 Recipient of a History Book Award and a Family History Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians)

Trains and Technology: Cars
Trains and Technology: Cars

Author: Anthony J. Bianculli

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0874137306

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Volume 2 of 'Trains and Technology' is devoted to railroad cars of nineteenth-century America. Since the variety of cars used during the nineteenth century was huge, the book is divided into three sections- passenger, freight, and non-revenue cars. The easily understood, jargon-free discussions and explanations throughout the book are accompanied by over 225 illustrations and accurate scale drawings of the various equipment.

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents

Author: United States. Patent Office

Publisher:

Published: 1914

Total Pages: 1124

ISBN-13:

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Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.