| Tennessee's Great Copper Basin Contributor(s): Frye, Harriet (Author) |
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ISBN: 146712494X ISBN-13: 9781467124942 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Technology & Engineering | Mining - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical |
| LCCN: 2016949798 |
| Series: Images of America |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (0.70 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Frye, Harriet: - 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. |