Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

The Carter family of Stony Creek, VA (part 2 of 2)

It wasn’t too long until the mill had been built, and the first of Carter’s mills on Stony Creek was in business.

It was while trout fishing in the spring of 1938, in Big Stony Creek, that I first saw the old Carter Mill.

In 1944 the Cambridge Police Chief, Boston’s Police Commissioner, & the Boston Bookseller’s Association all joined to squash ‘Strange Fruit’.

Photographs and text describing progress on the new Kraft pulp mill being constructed in 1920 in Covington, VA.

The legendary plant shortia is most known for its role in the debate over Charles Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species.’