Tennessee's Great Copper Basin - Couverture rigide

Frye, Harriet

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1540216349 ISBN 13 : 9781540216342

Editeur : Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, 2017

Synopsis

In 1843, the discovery of copper in Tennessee's far southeastern corner sparked a transformation in the isolated area known to geologists as the Ducktown Basin. By 1854, the first shafts had been sunk, and 28 mining companies had been incorporated for the purpose of exploring the possible wealth of the Ducktown district. For generations to come, the families of mine captains from Cornwall, executives and engineers from the industrial North, emigrants from Europe and the Middle East, miners drawn by the promise of jobs, and farmers who had bought land for pennies an acre in the 1830s would sit side by side in the same small churches and send their children to the same small schools. In the process, they would create a kind of culture that few small Southern communities had ever seen. This book, illustrated with photographs gathered from the scrapbooks and attics of their descendants, tells their story.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Freelance writer Harriet Frye was born in the Tennessee Copper Company hospital in Copperhill and grew up in the Great Copper Basin during the boom years of the 1940s and 1950s. She currently serves as secretary of the Ducktown Basin Museum Board of Directors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1540216349
• ISBN 13: 9781540216342
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 130
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible