| The Heart of the Alleghenies | |||
| Chapter 7 - Historical Resume | |||
| HISTORICAL RESUME Early Emigration -- Daniel Boone -- The "Pennsylvania Dutch" -- Conservatism -- The Revolutionary Forces -- The King's Mountain Battle -- "Nollichucky Jack" -- The Prisoner's Escape -- The State of Franklin -- The Pioneers -- Formation of Counties -- The Western North Carolina Railroad -- During the Late War -- Restless Mountains -- Scientific Exploration -- Calhoun's Observation -- The Tragedy of the Black Mountains -- Later Surveys -- Representatives of the Mountain People |
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| page 213 | "Most of the first immigrants to the coast country of South Carolina were English capitalists, who purchased large plantations." |
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| page 214 | "There is to the present day marked homogeneity of character within this belt, from Pennsylvania to Virginia southward." Yadkin ; Ireland ; Scotch ; American Revolution |
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| page 215 | "The class of settlers of which Boone is mentioned as a type is not large; but it was a class...which dared to face the Indian in his den." Daniel Boone ; Yadkin |
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| page 216 | "They are Lutheran in religion and Democratic in politics, and they are as steadfast as the hills in each." Governor Vance ; Catawba ; Pennsylvania Dutch ; Scotch ; Germans |
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| page 217 | "Their chief peril was to be apprehended from tory brigands and the Cherokees, incited to blood and cruelty by British agents." Highlanders ; Cherokee ; Mecklenburg declaration of Independence 1775 ; Patrick Moore |
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| page 218 | "The mountain men made one dashing and successful onslaught on his advancing divisions, and then retired to the mountain fastnesses, for consultation and organization." Colonel Shelby ; Colonel McDowell ; Colonel Sevier ; Colonel Ferguson ; Gilbert Town ; mountain men |
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| page 219 | "The mountain men aimed coolly, and shot fatally, giving away before a fierce charge at one point, and charging with equal fierceness from another." Colonel Ferguson ; Gilbert Town ; Yellow mountain ; mountain men ; royalists |
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| page 220 | "Thirty of the Tories were sentenced to death for desertion and other crimes they had committed, but only nine were executed." General Gates ; Colonel Mills ; John Seveir ; Continental Army ; Nollichucky Jack ; state of Franklin |
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| page 221 | "Their plan was to rescue him by stratagem, but if that failed, to fire the town, and in the excitement of the conflagration make their escape." John Seveir |
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| page 222 | "The fame of the luxuriant highland valleys was widespread, however, when an extinguishment of the Indian title opened them up to the settler." Nollichucky Jack ; State of Franklin ; Catawba ; Watuaga |
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| page 223 | "The squatter had the advantage from a cash point of view over the land owner, for he had not taxes to pay, and more time to devote to the chase." |
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| page 224 | "The Indians frequently showed hostile intentions, but the occasion for alarm was never great enough to deflect the tide of settlement." French Broad ; Pigeon river ; Cherokee treaty of 1819 ; Balsams |
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| page 225 | "Their stay, in most cases, was short, seclusion furnishing their profession a barren field for operation." French Broad valley ; Blue Ridge |
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| page 226 | "The Western North Carolina road was also an early project, and is a part of the system of public improvements contemplated by the state government." General Hayne ; WNC railroad ; RC Pearson ; JC Turner ; ETV & GRR ; Spartanburg & Asheville railroad ; Richmond & Danville |
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| page 227 | "The mountain men, in the War of 1812, shouldered their rifles and marched to distant climes, in defense of their country's honor." War of 1812 ; Stoneman's Federal Calvary ; General Lee ; Confederates ; Federal raider Kirk |
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| page 228 | "A great mass of granite was broken into fragments, and after one of these shocks every loose stone and piece of wood was moved from its original place." General Clingman ; Silas McDowell ; Rumbling Bald |
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| page 229 | "The general facts of these terrestrial disturbances have never been disputed, but concerning their cause, there has been widely diversified speculation." Shaking Bald ; Andre Michaux |
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| page 230 | "In the year 1835, with no other interest other than that of contributing to scientific knowledge, he [Mitchell] made the first barometrical measurements west of the Blue Ridge." John Calhoun ; David Swain ; Dr Elisha Mitchell ; General Washington |
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| page 231 | "Dr Mitchell's report was the first authoritative announcement of the superior altitude of the highest southern summit to Mt Washington." Dr Mitchell ; Thomas Clingman ; Charles Mitchell |
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| page 232 | "Below in the circular pool fourteen feet deep, of crystal water, lay the body [of Dr. Mitchell] perfectly preserved." Thomas Wilson ["Big Tom"]. |
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| page 233 | "Since his death, Professor Mitchell's claim to the credit of having measured the peak which bears his name is admitted." Professor Mitchell ; Arnold Guyot ; General Clingman ; Me Grand-Pierre ; E Sandoz ; Andrew Jackson ; Polk ; Andrew Johnson |
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| page 234 | "Of the attention its natural features has received from the outside world, it has scarcely less reason for pride and congratulation." Daniel Boone ; David Crockett ; Swain ; Vance ; Clingman |
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| page 235 | [Illustration] THE SPARKLING CATAWBA SPRINGS | ||