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Tag: American Enka

Becoming a “Townie” in Malvern Hills: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

Pleasant Alexander Calhoun lived most of his adult life in a place Horace Kephart described as the “back of beyond.” Until the beginning of … More

1920's, ALCOA, American Enka, Appalachia, Asheville, Asheville School, Back of Beyond, Beacon Blankets, Buncombe County, Chicken Hill, City Directories, Del Rio. TN, Fontana Lake, Great Smoky Mountains, Grovemont, Haywood Road, Horace Kephart, Jackson County, Kenilworth, Keowee, Malvern Hills, Mimosa Dr., Newton M. Anderson, Oconee, Robert Henry, Sanborn Maps, School Rd., Six Associates, Smokies, Subdivisions, Sulphur Springs, West Asheville

Welkom Bij Het Dorp Enka! 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

In the late 1920’s a group of Asheville investors, boosters, and executives (including Fred Seely, son in law of the … More

52 Weeks 52 Communities, Akzo Nobel, Akzona, American Enka, Appalachia, Archive, Arnhem, Austria, BASF, Buncombe County, Dutch, E.W. Grove, Ede, Enka, Enka Village, Female Labor, Fred Seely, Germany, Holland, Industrialism, Like A Family, Local History, Manufacturing, Modernism, Paternalism, Postcard, Rayon, Science, Textiles, The Netherlands, Transportation

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