Origin of the Brown Mountain Light in North Carolina

Origin of the Brown Mountain Light in North Carolina
Title Origin of the Brown Mountain Light in North Carolina PDF eBook
Author George Rogers Mansfield
Publisher CreateSpace
Pages 34
Release 2014-09-29
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 9781502548498

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The official explanation of the Brown Mountain Light in North Carolina. After numerous requests, the United States Geological Survey investigated the light in 1922. This is the compelling story of the unusual investigation into the "unexplained phenomenon" of the Brown Mountain light.

The Brown Mountain Lights

The Brown Mountain Lights
Title The Brown Mountain Lights PDF eBook
Author Wade Edward Speer
Publisher McFarland
Pages 262
Release 2017-03-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1476626200

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Mysterious nighttime lights near Brown Mountain in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest have intrigued locals and visitors for more than a century. The result of a three year investigation, this book identifies both manmade and natural light sources--including some unexpected ones--behind North Carolina's most famous ghost story. History, science and human nature are each found to play a role in the understanding and interpretation of the lights people see.

North Carolina Legends

North Carolina Legends
Title North Carolina Legends PDF eBook
Author Richard Walser
Publisher North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Pages 94
Release 1980
Genre History
ISBN

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Reconstruction's Ragged Edge

Reconstruction's Ragged Edge
Title Reconstruction's Ragged Edge PDF eBook
Author Steven E. Nash
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 289
Release 2016-01-13
Genre History
ISBN 146962625X

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In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles between factions of white mountaineers determined to rule. For a brief period, an influx of federal governmental power enabled white anti-Confederates to ally with former slaves in order to lift the Republican Party to power locally and in the state as a whole. Republican success led to a violent response from a transformed class of elites, however, who claimed legitimacy from the antebellum period while pushing for greater integration into the market-oriented New South. Focusing on a region that is still underrepresented in the Reconstruction historiography, Nash illuminates the diversity and complexity of Appalachian political and economic machinations, while bringing to light the broad and complicated issues the era posed to the South and the nation as a whole.

Haunted Asheville

Haunted Asheville
Title Haunted Asheville PDF eBook
Author Joshua P. Warren
Publisher The Overmountain Press
Pages 156
Release 1996
Genre Ghosts
ISBN 9781570723100

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"A beautiful young woman dies from a fall in Asheville's greatest hotel ... and the Pink Lady is said to still wander the massive halls of the Grove Park Inn. A building is constructed on the grounds of a miserable, ancient cemetery ... now they say you can still hear strange noises at night in the halls of Clyde A. Erwin High School. In 1908, a group of prisoners finally comes to Christ ... after being terrorized at night by a spook in the Buncombe County Jail. A distraught mother hangs herself from the rafters of a looming Beaucatcher Mountain bridge ... and the legend of Helen is born. These stories and more can be found within the pages of this remarkable book. A surreal mixture of history and myth, it searches for the fading morsels of truth while examining the feasts of folklore. These are the tales that linger in the minds of Asheville, as old and flavored as the mountains themselves. From secret chambers in aged castles to cryptic etchings on forgotten tombstones, this mountain town is filled with the lore and intrigue of the mysterious side of life."--Publisher description

History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina

History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina
Title History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina PDF eBook
Author Joseph Kelly Turner
Publisher
Pages 568
Release 1920
Genre Baptists
ISBN

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Western North Carolina

Western North Carolina
Title Western North Carolina PDF eBook
Author John Preston Arthur
Publisher
Pages 742
Release 1914
Genre North Carolina
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