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[Mt. Mitchell station - railroad station for Little Switzerland, N.C.] – Historic Print

[Mt. Mitchell station - railroad station for Little Switzerland, N.C.] — historic photograph
[Mt. Mitchell station - railroad station for Little Switzerland, N.C.]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Mt. Mitchell station - railroad station for Little Switzerland, N.C.]

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This photograph shows a small station that took its name from Mount Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Mississippi, yet served Little Switzerland, a mountain resort community in western North Carolina. Railroad depots like this one were the main link between summer visitors and the Blue Ridge hamlets, which depended on trains for guests, mail, and freight. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year is uncertain, but the image fits the early twentieth century, when rail lines pushed into the region's mountains and resort towns grew up along them. The station's name, which points to a landmark rather than the town it served, is worth noticing for anyone tracing how these places were named.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsWittemann Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: North Carolina--L- S-; Railroads--Stations; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 855 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139726

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