French Broad Defense Association
(1967-1977)
M77.14.1-8
| Title | Upper French Broad Defense Association (1967-1977) |
| Alt Title | Upper French Broad Defense Association, Inc. |
| Alt. Title | UFBDA |
| Creator | Upper French Broad Defense Association |
| Identifier | http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/upper_french_broad/default_ufbda.html |
| Subject Keyword | Upper French Broad Defense Association ; Jere Brittain ; Tennessee Valley Authority ; T.V.A. ; French Broad river ; flood control ; Martha Gash Boswell ; Alex Duris ; E.W. Johnson ; dam construction ; grass-roots organizing ; protest ; environmentalism ; Mills River ; Swannanoa River ; North Mills River ; South Mills River ; Warren Wilson College ; University of North Carolina Asheville ; Harry Caudill ; surface mining ; strip mining ; coal ; water pollution ; deforestation ; Mills River Baptist Church ; economic conditions ; water quality ; Conservation Council of North Carolina ; Sierra Club ; |
| Subject LCSH | Upper French Broad Defense Association, Asheville, North Carolina Tennessee Valley Authority North Carolina Department of Water Resources Western North Carolina Regional Planning Commission North Carolina, Western -- Economic conditions Conservation Council of North Carolina |
| Description | The Upper French Broad Defense Association collection concerns the activities of local
citizens who banded together to fight a Tennessee Valley Authority project to build
fourteen dams on the tributaries of the upper French Broad River for flood control. In
spite of almost unanimous support from local newspaper and civic groups in favor of the
project, UFBDA members at last turned the tide of public opinion against the project until
the TVA dropped the project.
This collection contains a sampling of the papers collected by the UFBDA, and includes pamphlets, copies of editorials, studies of flood control, articles against clear-cutting, and other items. Also included is a copy of Martha Gash Boswell's Grassroots Along the Upper French Broad: The Valley People Versus the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1961-1972, a 29-page pamphlet recounting the association's struggle to block construction of the dams. In addition to the papers held by D.H. Ramsey Library, the Western Archives and History facility at Oteen, near Asheville, holds a small group of early documents and correspondence.ORG.131: Upper French Broad Defense Association Records; 4 fibredex boxes. |
| Publisher | D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville 28804 |
| Contributor | Dr. Jere Brittain |
| Date | 2001-10-10 |
| Type | Collection ; Text |
| Format | text/html ; 6056 bytes |
| Source | M77.14.1 |
| Language | English |
| Relation | F. Stuart Chapin Collection, [M77.4.1] - Papers regarding the early Tennessee
Valley Authority (T.V.A.) ; Robert E. Shepherd Oral History in the
Voices of Asheville Oral History Collection ; In addition to the papers held by D.H. Ramsey Library, the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources Western Archives and History facility at Oteen, near Asheville, holds a small group of early documents and correspondence. Contact them for access and cite the following: ORG.131: Upper French Broad Defense Association Records; 4 fibredex boxes |
| Coverage Temporal | 1967-1977 |
| Coverage Spatial | Western North Carolina |
| Rights | Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
| Donor | Donor number 35 |
| Acquisition | 1977-11-01 |
| Citiation | Upper French Broad Association (1967-1977), D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville 28804 |
| Processed by | Southern Highlands Research Center staff 1977 ; Special Collections staff 2001 ; 2012 hw |
| Last update | 2001-10-10 ; 2012-08-01 hw |
| SERIES LIST | ||
| Box | Folder | Description |
|---|---|---|
| M77.14.01 | 1 | Introductory and Administrative materialIncludes: Martha Gash Boswell: Grassroots Along the Upper French Broad 1967-1972. Speech by Martha Boswell against clear-cutting (1973-1977) ; incorporation documents |
| 2 | Meeting Minutes & Committees | |
| 3 | Membership | |
| 4 | Notebook of Official Documents | |
| 5 | History & Anniversary | |
| 6 | Reports | |
| 7 | Planning Documents - Data, Reports and Fact gathering | |
| 8 | Planning Documents - Surveys, General | |
| 9 | Planning Documents - General | |
| 10 | Planning Documents - Land Use & Land Planning | |
| 11 | UFBDA - Related Material - Planning | |
| 12 | UFBDA Media Releases | |
| 13 | UFBDA LiteratureBooklets |
|
| 14 | Publications - TVA/U.S. Government | |
| M77.14.02 | ||
| 1 - 15 | Correspondence 1969 - 1990By year (incoming and outgoing by year; undated first) |
|
| 16 | UFBDA Advocacy - General | |
| 17 | UFBDA Advocacy - News Releases | |
| 18 | UFBDA Newsletter | |
| 19 | UFBDA - Legal Proceedings | |
| ** | 20 | UFBDA - Notes and Misc. Writing |
| 21 | Upper French Broad Development Commission | |
| 22 | Eugene Odum | |
| 23 | Civic Groups | |
| M77.14.03 | ||
| 1 - 8 | Organizers (includes personal correspondence, writing, speeches and biographical information)Martha Boswell |
|
| 9 | T.V.A. - Planning - Charles Taylor | |
| 10 | T.V.A. - Water Resources ("Development of Water Resources of the French Broad River Basin in North Carolina") | |
| 11 | T.V.A. - Environmental Impact Study & Reviews | |
| 12 | T.V.A. - Miscellaneous | |
| M77.14.04 | ||
| 1 | Public Hearings - Documents | |
| 2 | Public Hearings - Statements - Fragments and Unknowns | |
| 3 -13 | Public Hearings - StatementsArranged alphabetically by name |
|
| 14 | Public Hearing, September 1971 - Mills River | |
| 15 | Public Hearing, Group Endorsements | |
| 16 | Public Hearing - Petitions | |
| 17 | Environmental Organizations - Resolutions, Statements | |
| 18 | Public Hearings - U.S. Senate | |
| M77.14.05 | ||
| 1 | Asheville-Buncombe Water Supply Task Force | |
| 2 | Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. | |
| 3 | N.C. Dept. of Water Resources | |
| 4 | "A Flood Control Proposal for the Upper Swannanoa River to Protect Its Lower Flood Plain" by Donald E. Remer, 1972 | |
| 5 | "TVA Activities in Western North Carolina" | |
| 6 | TVA Draft Environmental Statement (Council on Environmental Quality Guidelines - Review) | |
| 7 | TVA Planning Report No.60-100"Development of the Water Resources of the French Broad River Basin in North Carolina" |
|
| 8 | Biology -"1962 Pre Impoundment Study of FBR Watershed" |
|
| 9 | U.S. Office of Appalachian Studies Water Supply & Water Pollution | |
| 10 | Economics - Documents/Articles | |
| 11 | "Economic:"An Economic Profile of Asheville, N.C. |
|
| 12 | Upper French Broad Economic Development Commission | |
| 13 | Legal - | |
| 14 | Legal -Appalachian Research and Defense Fund |
|
| 15 | Political | |
| 16 | Geology | |
| 17 | Advocacy/History - Warren Wilson College | |
| 18 | Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest | |
| 19 | History - Hoopers Creek Community | |
| 20 | Site HistoriesMills River Baptist Church |
|
| 21 | Henderson County - Hendersonville - History and Misc. | |
| 22 | Transylvania County - History | |
| 23 | Transylvania Council of Community Services | |
| M77.14.06 | ||
| 1 | Newspaper/Magazine Clippings (1963, 1966 -1968)Clippings, copies of editorials, clear-cutting arguments, advocacy, etc. Includes Transylvania Times, Hendersonville, Asheville Citizen-Times and state and national news-clippings. Arranged chronologically. |
|
| 2 | Newspaper/Magazine Clippings (1969 -1970) | |
| 3 | Newspaper/Magazine Clippings (1971) | |
| 4 | Newspaper/Magazine Clippings (Jan. - June 1972) | |
| 5 | Newspaper/Magazine Clippings (July - Dec. 1972) | |
| 6 | Newspaper/Magazine Clippings (1973 -1974) | |
| 7 | Newspaper/Magazine Clippings (1977) | |
| 8 | Newspaper/Magazine Clippings (1980 -1991) | |
| 9 | Newspaper/Magazine Clippings (undated) | |
| 10 | Newspaper/Magazine Clippings (duplicates from various years) | |
| M77.14.07 | ||
| 1 | Media Coverage - General | |
| 2 | Remer, Donald E. "A Flood Control Proposal for the Upper Swannanoa River to Protect Its Lower Flood Plain" 1972 | |
| 3 | Spenoe, John. Swannanoa Impoundment Studies | |
| 4 | Dam Literature | |
| 5 | Community Development Program, WNC | |
| 6 | Conservation Council of North Carolina | |
| 7 | Environmental Organizations, Misc. | |
| 8 | Mailings and Publications - ECOS, Friends of the Earth, Intercom, and Misc. | |
| M77.14.08 | ||
| 1 | Publications - North Carolina | |
| 2 - 5 | Non-UFBDA Literature -General |
|
| 6 | Realia (Objects) | |
| 7 | Certificates (UFDBA Dam Fighters) | |
| 8 | PHOTOGRAPHS, Visual Media (P77.14.001-044) | |
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