An Interpretive History of the Lower Deep River Region, NC
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2022-04-15
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Whisnant, Anne
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Abstract
How can interpreting the regional history of the lower Deep River region of North
Carolina inform land conservation for future generational use, education, and recreation?
I explore the Lower Deep River Region, NC, and its mining heritage in hopes of understanding
how land conservation efforts can use interpretive history as a guiding framework.
With the approval of a regional state trail, ever expanding public parks, and the
threat of impending commercial development, the region sits at the precipice of change.
In the paper, I examine the region's past, including its indigenous and early histories,
as well as its coal mining and industrial heritage, and I contextualize these stories
alongside available interpretive resources. I explore themes of race and labor in
a temporal and spatial manner as a guiding methodical framework. Using historic maps
and spatial sources, I reconstruct the Deep River’s history and bring the buried,
lost, and disappearing past into the present. The river’s past informs how certain
places, markers, or seemingly naturalized objects become integral in the regional
conservation dialogue. In addition to the written component below, I include a website
(deepriverhistory.com) that allows the public to engage with the material at an individual
pace.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/25718Citation
Wicker, Cole W. (2022). An Interpretive History of the Lower Deep River Region, NC. Capstone project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/25718.Collections
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