Records, 1916-1985 (bulk 1965-1984).

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Records, 1916-1985 (bulk 1965-1984).

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Correspondence, minutes, proposed by-laws, notices, leaflets, addresses, statements, scrapbook, resolutions, reports, clippings, transcipts of interviews, maps, charts, history interviews, and slides chiefly concerning the association's battle to stop the Tennessee Valley Authority, supported locally by businessmen of the Upper French Broad Economic Development Commission, from damming on fourteen tributaries of the Upper French Broad River in the interest of flood control, pollution control, and recreational development which the association contended would cripple or destroy six thriving communities, 600 homesteads, the ecology of forty miles of river band, and sequester 15,000 acres of prime crop land. Includes a pamphlet by Martha Gash Boswell entitled Grassrouts Along the Upper French Broad: the Valley People versus the Tennessee Valley Authority and material relating to North and South Mills River Community Development Club and Citizens and Taxpayers League of Transylvania County. Persons represented include Martha Gash Boswell, Jere Brittain, Alex Duris, and Aubrey J. Wagner.

79 slides.

North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist

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SNAC Resource ID: 8051370

North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist

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Upper French Broad Economic Development Commission

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Duris, Alex

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North and South Mills River Community Development Club

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Upper French Broad Defense Association

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Formed October 1970 with less than 100 members drawn largely from the Mills River and Little River communities of North Carolina and two years later there were more than 1200 members, all "interested in protecting our productive valleys from the massive impoundments proposed by the development program of the TVA." From the description of Records, 1916-1985 (bulk 1965-1984). (North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist). WorldCat record id: 70956033 ...

Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...

Wagner, Aubrey J., 1912-

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Brittain, Jere Alonzo, 1935-

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Boswell, Martha Gash

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Unpaid traveling secretary for the southern division of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (1940-1941). From the description of Papers, 1940-1969 (bulk 1940-1941). (North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist). WorldCat record id: 70952754 ...