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The venerable old Monte Vista Hotel, in Black Mountain... |
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Continuing through Black Mountain... |
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The old Town Pump is no more... |
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My Father was born in Cherokee County North Carolina and my Mother was born in Cherokee County South Carolina. Murphy is the county seat of Cherokee County. |
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Proceeding on to Culberson, North Carolina, a few miles southwest of Murphy, on the Nottely River. Culberson is on the North Carolina / Georgia line and is where my Father was born and raised. The old house is gone now, but I wanted to go to where it once stood... |
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Raper Rd. and the new Nottley River bridge... |
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Off to the east on Old Culberson Rd... a few hundred yards up the hill, on the left... |
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From the old days... Grandmother Dollie and Grandfather Charlie in front of their home - that stood on this spot... |
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From the old days... My Father, his sister Blanche, his mother, and his brother Elmer, beside the porch of the old Thompson home that has now grown over... |
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What's left of the old well house, to the right of where the old home stood... |
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From the old days... Grandfather Charlie with a dog and gun, in front of the same well house pictured above... |
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The Gibson Dove, just about where that old porch would have been. I picked a few tunes... "The Wildwood Flower," Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky"... "Sweet Bye & Bye"... |
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Looking back down the Old Culberson Rd. from whence I came. This was a gravel road back in the days of the old Thompson home... |
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Looking down the Old Culberson Rd. that I continued upon... toward "Happy Top" and "The Line"... |
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Great Uncle Ralph's (my Grandfather Charlie's brother) old home... |
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These 2 dogs followed me for about half a mile... |
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"Happy Top" church, where my Father's family attended back in the old days. "The Line" church, a little further down the road, is the site of many family graves... |
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The old community is all but gone in these parts and the pace of change has quickened. I also noticed several swaths of nearby land that seem to have been burned by a forest fire several years prior. |
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28903 Culberson, NC. The Post Office, on Hwy. 60. |
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Leaving North Carolina, entering Georgia. The property that had been owned by my grandparents was on the state line a few miles from here, on the North Carolina side... |