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North Carolina History Lesson Plans from the Southern Appalachian Archives
- North Carolina History Lesson Plans: Precolonial
- North Carolina Era 2 – Colonial 1600 - 1763: Migration Push/Pull Lesson
- North Carolina Era 3 – Revolution 1763 - 1789: Regulator Songs Lesson Plan
- North Carolina Era 4: Early National – 1789-1836: Family Histories Lesson Plan
- North Carolina Era 5: Antebellum - 1836 - 1860: Rip Van Winkle in contemporary writing lesson plan
- North Carolina Era 6: Civil War and Reconstruction - 1860 - 1876: Views of the Civil War Lesson Plan
- North Carolina Era 7: New South – 1876 - 1900: Subscription Schools in Western North Carolina Lesson Plan
- North Carolina Era 8: Early 20th Century – 1900 - 1929 Lesson Plans
- North Carolina Era 9: Depression and War (1929-1945)
- North Carolina Era 10: Postwar (1945-1975): Post-War Political Cartoons Lesson Plan
- North Carolina Era 11: Recent (1975-2010) Lesson Plans
- Land Use in Western North Carolina Lesson Plans from the Southern Appalachian Archives
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North Carolina History Lesson Plans from the Southern Appalachian Archives
- "Feast and Farmin': A Celebration of Western North Carolina Agricultural History"
Journey to Southern Appalachia
Born in Philadelphia in 1889, William A. Barnhill spent his youth hiking through the Pennsylvania countryside, studying both nature and the residents of the areas he encountered. He broadened his “vagabonding” to Virginia and West Virginia before deciding to travel to western North Carolina after reading Horace Kephart’s Our Southern Highlanders.
Barnhill arrived in Asheville, North Carolina in the summer of 1914 with little money but artistic ability that allowed him to earn a meager living when jobs there were scarce. At first he painted commercial signs and in his free time took his camera and hiked into the mountains that surrounded Asheville. William Barnhill’s passion for collection and his personal curiosity led him to photograph the landscapes and people that he encountered in his travels.