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Circling Windrock Mountain: Two Hundred Years in Appalachia
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Description for Circling Windrock Mountain: Two Hundred Years in Appalachia
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 544.
Around 1800, a Revolutionary War veteran named Micajah Frost came to the Cumberland Mountains of East Tennessee and cleared a portion of virgin forest in what is now Anderson County. Others followed, and eventually this small area was dotted with settlers. In the years since, those settlers and their descendants witnessed the strife of the Civil War, the rise of the coal-mining and logging industries, the coming of the railroad, and countless smaller upheavals. Drawn largely from the memories of long-time residents, this delightful book revisits two hundred years of history in the communities surrounding what was locally called Windrock ... Read more
Around 1800, a Revolutionary War veteran named Micajah Frost came to the Cumberland Mountains of East Tennessee and cleared a portion of virgin forest in what is now Anderson County. Others followed, and eventually this small area was dotted with settlers. In the years since, those settlers and their descendants witnessed the strife of the Civil War, the rise of the coal-mining and logging industries, the coming of the railroad, and countless smaller upheavals. Drawn largely from the memories of long-time residents, this delightful book revisits two hundred years of history in the communities surrounding what was locally called Windrock ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781572330382
SKU
V9781572330382
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