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  Front view of Backus Lodge, circa 1988 At the turn of the century, many urban industrialists were drawn to the southern Appalachian mounta...

  This photo was taken shortly after a barn raising party in 1910 on property owned by Southern Stock & Farm. On January 19, 1906 new ad...

Corydon and Thelma Bell Corydon and Thelma Bell moved to Rainey Knob in Sapphire in 1944. The duo partnered on seven children’s’ books: Thel...

  The construction of the Ecusta Medical Center in February 1951, as published in "The Echo" company magazine. The Ecusta Paper Pl...