French Broad toward Fleetwood Hotel

Description

This image shows a spread-out community in the foreground and mountains in the background. Written on the reverse is “141-3. French Broad toward Fleetwood Hotel from a home west of Asheville NC. M. E. Norburn, W. C. Morse. July 13, 1931.” The Fleetwood Hotel, never completed, was located on Jump-Off Mountain near Hendersonville. The photographers attributed to this series of images are W. C. Morse, visiting professor of Geology, and Martha E. Norburn, graduate student in Geology, both at the University of North Carolina. Norburn wrote her doctoral dissertation “The Influence of the Physiographic Features of Western North Carolina on the Settlement and Development of the Region” in 1932 under the direction of Collier Cobb. Ten years later she wrote “Asheville: In Land of the Sky” under her married name Martha Elizabeth Norburn Mead.
Details
- Creator
  - Mead, Martha Norburn
- Format
  - Photographs
- Type
  - StillImage
- Date
  - Date original: 1931-07-13
- Extent
  - Dimension: 3.5" x 5.75"
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Buncombe County (N.C.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Norburn - Robertson - Thomson Families Collection
- Identifier
  - HL_MSS94-05_05_32_013
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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