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"Aerial view of Wolf Creek and the Abingdon Muster Grounds"

"The town of Whitetop, nestled at the foot of White Top Mountain, was incorporated in 1913, the year the railroad arrived. Before the train, the main industry was farming: families eked out a living raising cattle, hogs, sheep, corn and other crops.…

The White Top Folk Festival grew out of a suggestion made to Abingdon attorney John Blakemore that a fiddler’s contest be held on White Top on the 4th of July. 13 In addition to being an attorney, Blakemore was a well-connected politician and an…

Broadsheet announcing details of the 1932 WTFF originally distributed as a tri-fold brocure(two sided)

Broadsheet announcing details of the 1932 WTFF originally distributed as a tri-fold brocure(two sided)

"Broadcast of some of the fourth annual White Top Fiddlers' Convention (sic), John Blakemore master of cermonies

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.

"The first Virginia-Carolina locomotive reached Damascus on January 25, 1901, and the way for hauling out timber was opened. Whiting's sawmlll in Abingdon began receiving its supply of lumber from Damascus at once."

"The Abingdon Branch crossed some of the highest and most scenic terrain of any standard gauge railroad in the United States. In the 55½ miles from Abingdon to West Jefferson, there were 108 bridges, most made with timber, and no…

Thursday morning. John Weaver... came in before I was up to have me determine some ore for him, and agreed to go with me to the Whitetop, an exceedingly high mountain, 3 miles north of the, say Northwestern most corner of N.Ca. of course in Virginia.…