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Waynesville Reunion, Sept. 18, 1885 sic August 1889

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  • The 'North Carolina Historical Review' (July 1997) identified this photograph as a Confederate veterans reunion that W.W. Stringfield, himself a veteran and the owner of the Haywood White Sulphur Springs Hotel, arranged in Waynesville, N.C., in the summer of 1889. The list of attendees included North Carolina Governor Daniel G. Fowle (#1) and past state governor Thomas J. Jarvis (#10), two former congressmen in the presence of Thomas L. Clingman (#6) and Robert B. Vance (#7), and Principal Chief Nimrod Jarrett Smith of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Stringfield is visible to the right in front of the gathering (#12).