Henry Blackwell photographs, 1940.

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Henry Blackwell photographs, 1940.

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Photographs focusing on the August 13, 1940 flood of the Linville River Railway (LRR) which washed away tracks and bridges and led to the abandonment of the line in 1941. The photographs depict washed-out track, creek beds along the LRR line, abandoned track, and similar scenes relating to the flood.

44 photographs : b&w.44 photographs : negative, b&w.

East Tennessee State University, TET

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East Tennessee State University, TET

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Linville River Railway

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Blackwell, Henry, 1851-1928

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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 headqua...