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Illustrated from photographs, plates. Labor unrest in the south in 1929, with chapters devoted to each of the strikes in Elizabethton, Tennessee, Gastonia and Marion, North Carolina, and Danville, Virginia.

"With the aid of an ESEA Title II grant, Mrs. Elaine Duty, librarian at the John S. Battle High School in Washington County, Virginia created a Southern Appalachian Collection of over 500 titles in the categories of general works, philosophy,…

L.F. Hall pictured on the porch of her house on Laurel Ave. in Damascus, Va.

Photograph of L.F. Hall on her front porch on Laurel Ave.. in Damascus, Va.

Contemporary accounts of the shift in Damascus from an industrial, extraction-based economy to an ecotourism-based economy.

"In 1912 the Virginia-Creeper Railway was bought by the Norfolk and Western and extended on to West Jefferson in North Carolina. The line has been in operation under Norfolk and Western ownership continuously since that time, and Damascus is the only…

"In 1920, when action was taken by interested citizens to begin the building of a new school, Mr. and Mrs. Backer gave the town the lots for the school site and the athletic field (Backer Park).

"In November 1930, Mrs. Mildred Wright Dungan called a meeting of other teachers who were interested in forming a study and service club. The name Au Courant Book Club was given to the organization."

"Outside of the church organizations the first clubs formed in Damascus were for young people. About 1915, or soon after, Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls were organized."

"In the fall of 1945, after World War II ended, expansion of the Damascus Lumber Corporation, owned by the Lincoln Furniture Company of Marion, began."