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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BH6_restoring-a-forest_Balsam-Grove-NC.html
Commercial logging and devastating wildfires scarred the forests of America in the early decades of the 1900s. To repair the damage, the United States Forest Service began the "Penny Pine" program in the 1930s, encouraging people to donate a penny…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BGO_making-linsey-woolsey_Sparta-NC.html
Caroline Brinegar had to plan ahead for many months to make a garment. She made her family's clothes from a fabric called linsey-woolsey that she wove on her loom. Linsey-woolsey is woven from wool yarn and linen (flax) thread. The wool made the f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BGN_a-mountain-home_Sparta-NC.html
All the materials Martin Brinegar needed for building a cabin were here on this farm—trees, rocks, even clay. Martin Brinegar began building this cabin in 1886. Working in his spare time, it took him three years to finish the original cabin …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BGM_the-brinegar-family_Sparta-NC.html
The Brinegars were not famous or rich, but they were important to their families and neighbors. In 1876 Martin Brinegar purchased this 125 acre farm from Henderson Crouse, Caroline Joines' uncle, for $200. Two years later Martin and Caroline were …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BFU_brinegar-cabin_Sparta-NC.html
For nearly sixty years, Martin and Caroline Brinegar lived on this 125 acre farm leading lives based on hard work, self-sufficiency, and an abiding religious faith. Descendants of their three children often come here to visit the homeplace.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BD3_william-bartram-naturalist_Franklin-NC.html
William BartramNaturalist
Visited this area of the Cherokee Nationin May, 1775
while on his mission to record the natural
and cultural resources along the trading
route between the Low Country to the east
and the Overhill Country to the west…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BD2_the-north-carolina-bartram-trail_Franklin-NC.html
The North Carolina Bartram Trail is a hiking trail to commemorate the 1775 visit of Philadelphia naturalist William Bartram to Western North Carolina. Begun in the 1970s, the trail parallels Bartram's actual route into Cherokee country. It begins …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BD1_gem-mining_Franklin-NC.html
Long before the first settlers arrived here in 1818, this area teased explorers with hints of mineral wealth — especially gold, silver and copper. Not much interest was taken in Macon County's gemstones until a farmer turned up some strange …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BB4_cradle-of-forestry_Canton-NC.html
Nestled in the valley below is the Cradle of Forestry in America, the birthplace of science-based forest management and a living legacy made possible by George and Edith Vanderbilt of the nearby Biltmore Estate. Some 87,000 acres of the Vanderbilt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BAW_the-loops_Spruce-Pine-NC.html
The old Clinchfield Railroad loops and tunnels through the Blue Ridge Mountains before you. Construction of this difficult section began in 1905 when 4,000 workmen, mainly Russian, German and Italian immigrants, began blasting and hammering their …