Blackwell, Henry, 1851-1928

Linville River Railway Company was incorporated in North Carolina in 1899 and operated a railway from Cranberry to Boone, N.C. until 1941.

Henry Blackwell, the son of a railroad man, was born and raised in the Tri-Cities region of East Tennessee. After graduating from the University of Tennessee with an engineering degree and serving in the U.S. Army's transportation corps, he remained in the army reserves after the war and served as head of a transportation unit headquartered in Johnson City, Tennessee until 1950, when the unit was reactivated at the onset of the Korean War.

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