William S. Whiting Logging Railroads: An Historical Geography, 1900-1925
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posted on 2025-08-08, 12:37 authored by Joseph H. Quinn, Jr.By 1920, William S. Whiting's Boone Fork Lumber Company at Shulls Mills, North Carolina, was operating at full capacity. A large bandsaw mill complex was served by two spur logging rail lines reaching extensive timber holdings. Lumber products were shipped via the narrow gauge mainline Linville River Railway to Elizabethton, Tennessee and to regional markets on standard gauge mainline systems from there.
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2003College or School
- College of Arts and Sciences
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EnglishAccess Rights
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Geography and PlanningAdvisor
James YoungDissertation or Thesis Type
- Graduate Thesis
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