African Americans in western North Carolina

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	! TO FURTHER REFINE YOUR SEARCH USE THE CUSTOM SEARCH ABOVE. The agricultural base of western North Carolina is shifting and the early photographs and manuscript accounts of early farming practice have meaning far beyond the visual and textual record. These collections point the direction toward a renewal of lost practice and principles.
	The Sandy Mush Chronicles
	For those interested in regional studies, the Sandy Mush Chronicles (SMC) is a collection of seventeen interviews from residents of Sandy Mush, a small rural community located in Leicester, North Carolina. Sandy Mush was made famous when local residents protested the reallocation of the area as a nuclear waste dump. Interviewees discuss the changing methods of farming, the homeplace, and molasses making. A highlight of the collection occurs with James Hannah's description of the community quilt, which

documents the history of the region. The collection provides a potent seed for future ethnographic work in Southern Appalachian rural communities, tobacco barns and cultural landscape, environmental racism, folklore, and rural Appalachian religion, to name a few
E.M. Ball Collection Asheville and western North Carolina from 1919-1969. Collection is comprised largely of urban architectural photographs and people and events in Asheville. But, also included are early images of rural life in the region. See especially, TOBACCO PROCESSING"
This is a large photograph collection and many of the series contain long sequences of images of livestock breeding, farm life
on mountain hillsides, tobacco farming practice, and use of early farm tools and equipment. Large file] See also Asheville's Built Environment which allows close zooms of many of the images in the Ball Collection.
*Jody Barber* Collection** Views of Hendersonville, NC and surrounding area, taken by members of the Barber family from 1884 until the 1930's. The Barbers were engaged in raising fruit in the area and some of their images show scenes of the Hendersonville market and their orchards..
*R. Henry Scadin* Collection** Scadin was also a fruit grower. His orchards near Highlands produced apples and pears and his farming practice is captured in the diaries that he kept while living in the highlands of western North Carolina. Approximately 2500 photographs that document rural life in western North Carolina from the late 1890's to 1924 and diaries from 1885-1923 that contain photographic sojourns of the photographer and family and many notes on photographic processes and materials . Also included are photographs taken in Vermont, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, and other states, account books of the photographer's activity, and other miscellaneous information on agricultural practice make this collection particularly rich in rural life accounts. .
WNC HERITAGE - AGRICULTURE - Quotes from early literature about farming practice and life in rural western North Carolina. Where Farming Pays "The State of North Carolina has paved the way for the-farming development of "the Land-of the Sky." Western North Carolina offers splendid opportunities for those who would profit exceedingly -well in the cultivation of the specialized crops for which these verdant farmlands are perfectly suited. THERE were 2,766 owner-operated farms in Buncombe County in 1920. On January 1, 1925, this total had grown to 3,768—an increase which proves beyond question the success which "Land of the Sky" farmers are enjoying. Western North Carolina's agricultural possibilities are only now being realized. With the building of good roads and the formation of co-operative marketing associations—farmers can now engage in agriculture along scientific lines, and make money...." [From: Asheville in the Land of the Sky. p. 46]
TOBACCO PROCESSING in the E.M. Ball Photographic Collection