Railroad Builders: The Dunavant Family of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee (Supplement)
| Author | : Christopher Hunt Robertson, M.Ed. |
| Publisher | : Christopher Hunt Robertson, M.Ed. |
| Total Pages | : 58 |
| Release | : 2016-01-01 |
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| Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Railroad Builders: The Dunavant Family of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee" introduced Henry Jackson "Jack" Dunavant (1875-1928) and described many of the large-scale construction projects he completed in North Carolina and throughout the South. (Charlotte's Dunavant Street was named in his honor.) It also introduced his wife, Louise Wert Dunavant (1886-1967), and described how she supervised the initial construction of Charlotte's Carolina Golf Club and successfully launched that project during the Great Depression. This supplemental e-book introduced their immediate family and related families, and this latest edition also recalls how the Henkel - Dunavants of Statesville helped to develop the beautiful mountain town of Blowing Rock. This two-volume work received both a History Book Award and a Family History Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians in 2015.
