Author: Good Roads Association of Asheville and Buncombe County, N.C.Publisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Constitution and Report of Work Accomplished by the Good Roads Association of Asheville and Buncombe County
Author: Good Roads Association of Asheville and Buncombe County, N.C.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Creating the Land of the Sky
Author: Richard D. StarnesPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817356045
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A sophisticated inquiry into tourism's social and economic power across the South. In the early 19th century, planter families from South Carolina, Georgia, and eastern North Carolina left their low-country estates during the summer to relocate their households to vacation homes in the mountains of western North Carolina. Those unable to afford the expense of a second home relaxed at the hotels that emerged to meet their needs. This early tourist activity set the stage for tourism to become the region's New South industry. After 1865, the development of railroads and the bugeoning consumer culture led to the expansion of tourism across the whole region. Richard Starnes argues that western North Carolina benefited from the romanticized image of Appalachia in the post-Civil War American consciousness. This image transformed the southern highlands into an exotic travel destination, a place where both climate and culture offered visitors a myriad of diversions. This depiction was futher bolstered by partnerships between state and federal agencies, local boosters, and outside developers to create the atrtactions necessary to lure tourists to the region. As tourism grew, so did the tension between leaders in the industry and local residents. The commodification of regional culture, low-wage tourism jobs, inflated land prices, and negative personal experiences bred no small degree of animosity among mountain residents toward visitors. Starnes's study provides a better understanding of the significant role that tourism played in shaping communities across the South.
Good Roads
Author: L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads
Author: The State Highway System of North Carolina
Author: Cecil Kenneth BrownPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
North Carolina's highway system was one of the greatest single steps toward progress ever made by the state, linking the somnolent and backward communities with the more accessible and progressive sections. This volume presents the story of this highway system with due regard to the conditions of the past out of which it grew. Originally published in 1931. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Good Roads Circular
Author: New Voyages to Carolina
Author: Larry E. TisePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469634600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
New Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina's history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state's evolution over more than four centuries. The volume provides new lenses and provocative possibilities for reimagining the state's past. Transcending traditional markers of wars and elections, the contributors map out a new chronology encompassing geological realities; the unappreciated presence of Indians, blacks, and women; religious and cultural influences; and abiding preferences for industrial development within the limits of "progressive" politics. While challenging traditional story lines, the authors frame a candid tale of the state's development. Contributors: Dorothea V. Ames, East Carolina University Karl E. Campbell, Appalachian State University James C. Cobb, University of Georgia Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Stephen Feeley, McDaniel College Jerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina Central University Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Yale University Patrick Huber, Missouri University of Science and Technology Charles F. Irons, Elon University David Moore, Warren Wilson College Michael Leroy Oberg, State University of New York, College at Geneseo Stanley R. Riggs, East Carolina University Richard D. Starnes, Western Carolina University Carole Watterson Troxler, Elon University Bradford J. Wood, Eastern Kentucky University Karin Zipf, East Carolina University
Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the North Carolina Good Roads Association, Held at Charlotte, N.C., August 1 and 2, 1912
Author: Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the North Carolina Good Roads Association, Held at Morehead City, N.C., July 31 and August 1, 1913, in Cooperation with the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey
Author: John Simcox HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Municipal Journal and Public Works
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description