Henry E. Colton letter to Samuel McDowell Tate, 1870 October 15.

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Henry E. Colton letter to Samuel McDowell Tate, 1870 October 15.

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The collection consists of one letter from Henry E. Colton, author of the first North Carolina guidebook, Mountain Scenery, to Confederate Civil War hero Col. Samuel McDowell Tate. Tate was instrumental in planning and sponsoring the construction of the first leg of the Western North Carolina Railroad.

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Western North Carolina Railroad Company

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Incorporated in North Carolina in 1855 to build a railroad to connect the North Carolina Railroad with the Mississippi Valley; main line opened in 1881 from Salisbury to Paint Rock, N.C. (185 miles); part of Richmond and Danville system (1880-1894); controlled by Southern Railway Company after 1894. From the description of Papers, 1855-1895. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28414163 ...

Tate, Samuel McDowell, 1830-1897

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Samuel McDowell Tate (1830-1897) was a Confederate colonel; president of the Western North Carolina Railroad after the Civil War, except when removed by Republicans; representative of Burke County, N.C., to the General Assembly, 1874-1884; bank examiner, 1886; state treasurer, 1893-1894; and longtime Democratic Party leader of western North Carolina. He married Jennie Pearson, daughter of R. C. Pearson, in 1866. From the description of Samuel McDowell Tate papers, 1810-1918. WorldCat...

Colton, Henry E.

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"Henry E. Colton (26 Dec. 1836-8 Jan. 1892), naturalist, geologist, and author, was born in Fayetteville, the son of the Reverend Simeon Colton, a native of Somers, Conn., and an 1806 graduate of Yale who moved to Fayetteville in 1833 as headmaster of Donaldson Academy, and his wife, Susan Chapman of Connecticut. Where Colton received his early education is not known, but he clearly was quite well educated. His most famous and most widely circulated book was published in Raleigh by ...