Description: Tennessee's Great Copper Basin, Tennessee, Images of America, Paperback In 1843, the discovery of copper in Tennessee's far southeastern corner sparked a transformation in the isolated area known to geologists as the Ducktown Basin. By 1854, the first shafts had been sunk, and 28 mining companies had been incorporated for the purpose of exploring the possible wealth of the Ducktown district. For generations to come, the families of mine captains from Cornwall, executives and engineers from the industrial North, emigrants from Europe and the Middle East, miners drawn by the promise of jobs, and farmers who had bought land for pennies an acre in the 1830s would sit side by side in the same small churches and send their children to the same small schools. In the process, they would create a kind of culture that few small Southern communities had ever seen. This book, illustrated with photographs gathered from the scrapbooks and attics of their descendants, tells their story.
Price: 16.24 USD
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781467124942
Book Title: Tennessee's Great Copper Basin
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Item Height: 0.3 in
Topic: Mining, United States / South / East South Central (Al, Ky, ms, Tn), Subjects & Themes / Historical, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)
Publication Year: 2017
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Technology & Engineering, Photography, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Harriet Frye
Item Width: 6.5 in
Book Series: Images of America Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
