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Allan, Randy.  2006.  Lemuel Chenoweth, 1811-1887: Bridging the Gaps [accomplished W.Va. covered bridge builder].  Parsons, W.Va.:  McClain Printing Co.  166 pp.

Allen, Karen Ebert.  1997.  “Historic American Engineering Record for the Fayette Station Bridge”  [New River Gorge, W.Va.].  In  Proceedings, New River Symposium, April 11-12, 1997, Glade Springs Resort, Daniels, West Virginia, 40-47.  Glen Jean, W.Va.: National Park Service.

Anderson, Belinda.  2000.  “Living in the Quiet Zone” [adjacent mammoth radio telescopes at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, W.Va.].   Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Fall): 50-55.

Anderson, Colleen.  2001.  “Visiting Historic Malden” [listed on the National Register of Historic Places].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Fall): 40-41.

Architecture in Appalachia: Articles, Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Reviews.  1999.  Special issue, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 1-44.

Austin, Peter.  1997.  “The Work of Rafael Guastavino in Western North Carolina” [vaulting in Biltmore House and Basilica of St. Lawrence].  In May We All Remember Well:  A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 63-79.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Beckman, James A.  2006.  Harpers Ferry [W.Va.; postcard history; John Brown; Storer College].  Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia.  127 p.

Binnicker, Margaret Duncan.  2000.  “A Garden City in Appalachia Tennessee: Grosvenor Atterbury’s Design for Erwin” [Unicoi Co., 1916; designed for CC&O Railway].  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 59 (Fall): 274-289.

Bishir, Catherine W., Michael T. Southern, and Jennifer F. Martin.  1999.  A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina [1200 buildings; 370 photos].  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  488 pp.

Brown, Fred.  2005.  Marking Time: East Tennessee Historical Markers and the Stories Behind Them [local history sites].  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.  356 pp.

Brunk, Andrew James.  1997.  “Robert Duncanson’s View of Asheville, North Carolina, 1850" [free black artist; earliest known painting of Asheville].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 114-123.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Burchett-Anderson, Theresa.  2006.  “Museum Review: Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park” [Big Stone Gap, Va.].  Appalachian Journal 33, no. 2 (Winter): 246-248.

Carlisle, Barbara.  2006.  “The Barter Theatre Legend” [founded 1932, Abingdon, Va.; history, productions, actors].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 22, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 44-49.

Carlisle, Fred.  2004.  “The Past in the Present: The Greater Newport Rural Historic District” [Giles Co., Va.; 34 square miles; community action project].  Appalachian Journal 32 (Fall): 50-66.

Chambers, S. Allen.  2004.  Buildings of West Virginia [architectural guidebook; 1000 entries, 375 photographs, 60 maps].  Buildings of the United States.  New York: Oxford University Press.  663 pp.

Coleman, Ralph S.  1999.  “Black Iron Tongue” [trailer home opinion].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 34-35.

Condee, William Faricy.  2005.  Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia [used as multipurpose community facilities; 1860s-1930s; Ky., Ohio, Pa., W. Va].  Athens: Ohio University Press.  210 pp.

Cox, Joyce, and W. Eugene Cox, comps. and eds.  2001.  History of Washington County, Tennessee [250 years; reference text; winner of American Association of State and Local History’s Award of Merit, 2002].  Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press.  1,290 pp.

Culvahouse, Tim.  2007.  The Tennessee Valley Authority: Design and Persuasion [landscape; visual art; photo-essay].  New York: Princeton Architectural Press.  144 pp.

Dart, Susan.  1997.  The Old Home Place [Polk Co., N.C.; John Hiram Johnson House; listed in National Register of Historic Places].  Louisville, Ky.: Chicago Spectrum Press.  101 pp.

Dempsey, Sarah.  2001.  “Norton House: Malden’s Best-Kept Secret” [historic 1840 house in Kanawha Valley].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Fall): 37-39.

Dickinson, W. Calvin, Michael E. Birdwell, and Homer D. Kemp.  2002.  Upper Cumberland Historic Architecture [eight-county region above Carthage].  Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press.  148 pp.

Dickinson, W. Calvin.  2004.  “Sheltering the People: Folk Architecture in the Upper Cumberland Region” [Ky., Tenn.].  In Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, eds. M. Birdwell and W. Dickinson, 35-48.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Emrick, Michael.  1996.   “Blount Mansion: Architectural Analysis and the Reinterpretation of a Tennessee Landmark” [built 1792; Gov. William Blount; Knoxville].  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 55 (Winter): 310-319.

Ensminger, Robert F.  2003 [1992].  The Pennsylvania Barn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America [maps, figures, photos].  2nd ed.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.  348 pp.

Fanslow, Mary.  2003.  “From Timbering to Tourism: The Wonderland Hotel’s Early Years” [Tenn. mountains; early 20th-century; new lumber wealth; class hierarchy].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 9 (Fall): 433-449.

Faulkner, Charles H.  2000.  “Knoxville and the Southern Appalachian Frontier: An Archaeological Perspective” [four 18th-century homes].  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 59 (Fall): 158-173.

Gorman, Michelle.  1999.  “Turning Trash into Treasure: Recycling from a Waste Stream Builds a House” [Athens Co., Ohio].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 18-22.

Griffith, Clay.  2001.  “An Inventory of Douglas Ellington’s Architectural Work in Western North Carolina” [Asheville; b. 1886].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 91-119.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.

Hardy, Michael C.  2005.  A Short History of Old Watauga County. [N.C.].  Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers.  238 pp.

Harris, Frances Katherine Parr.  1999.  “West Virginia Homeplaces: A Study of Architectural Resources in the Appalachian Corridor H Project Area” [federal highway; historic preservation].  M.H.P. thesis, University of Georgia.  94 pp.  Masters Abstracts International 37: 1344.

Harshaw, Lou.  2007.  Asheville: Mountain Majesty [N.C.; history, urban development; Blue Ridge Parkway; Grove Park Inn; Biltmore Estate].  Fairview, N.C.: Bright Mountain Books.  358 pp.

Harvey, Jeffrey.  2002.  “Fidler’s Mill: Rediscovering an Upshur County Landmark.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Summer): 18-23.

Hill, David.  Interview by Jane Harris Woodside. 1999.  “Reading the Landscape: An Interview with David Hill” [landscape architect].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 23-26.

Historic West Virginia Jail Spared from Wrecking Ball [Charles Town, W.Va.; trial site for 1920s Mine Wars and abolitionist John Brown (1859)].  2001.  United Mine Workers Journal 112 (March-April): 23.

Hornyak, Deanna.  1996.  "Arthurdale: Homesteading in West Virginia."  [New Deal subsistence community]  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 13 (Summer): 25-30.

Howell, Benita J.  2001.  “Rugby, Tennessee’s Master Planner: Franklin Webster Smith of Boston” [1880s Utopian experiment].  Journal of East Tennessee History 73: 23-38.

Howell, Benita J., and Susan E. Neff.  2002.  “Victorian Environmental Planning in Rugby, Tennessee: A Blueprint for the Future” [Morgan Co., Tenn.; Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area].  In Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South, ed. B. Howell, 170-181.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Huddleston, Eugene, and Adelaide Ballou.  1997.  “The New River and the American Landscape Tradition: Part II” [W.Va.; survey of historic landscape paintings].  In  Proceedings, New River Symposium, April 11-12, 1997, Glade Springs Resort, Daniels, West Virginia, 110-119.  Glen Jean, W.Va.: National Park Service.

Hughes, Delos D.  2001.  “The Housing Ideal at Cumberland Homesteads” [1930s Crossville, Tenn.; New Deal program to create subsistence homestead community; (cf. Arthurdale, W.Va.  project)].  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 60 (Spring): 38-53.

Humes, Harry.  1997.  “The Girard Theater” [Girardville, Pa].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Winter): 19.

Johnson, Bruce E.  1997.  “Built Without an Architect: Architectural Inspirations for the Grove Park Inn” [1912; Asheville; using native fieldstone].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 214-227.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Johnson, Mary E.  2006.  “‘There’s Nothing New, Everything Is Old Today’: Looking Back on One Hundred Years of West Virginia Archives and History” [1905-2005; centennial of the state archives].  West Virginia History 60 (2004-2006): 49-82.

Johnson, Mary.  1997.  “An ‘Ever Present Bone of Contention’: The Heyward Shepherd Memorial” [to the first victim of John Brown’s raiders, a free black, 1859, Harpers Ferry, W.Va.; dedicated 1931 by The United Daughters of the Confederacy and The Sons of Confederate Veterans].  West Virginia History 56: 1-26.

Johnson, Rody.  2000.  “Old Sweet Springs: A Lewis Family Legacy” [Monroe Co. mineral springs resort; founded 1790; Grand Hotel built 1835].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Summer): 60-65.

Jones, Robbie D.  1997.  The Historic Architecture of Sevier County, Tennessee.  Sevierville, Tenn.: Smoky Mountain Historical Society.  408 pp.

Jourdan, Katherine M.  2000.  Historic West Virginia: The National Register of Historic Places [805 locations].  Charleston, W.Va.: Division of Culture and History, State Historic Preservation Office.  156 pp.

Jourdan, Katherine M., ed.  2000.  Historic West Virginia: The National Register of Historic Places [descriptions; by county].  Charleston, W.Va.: Division of Culture and History, State Historic Preservation Office.  156 pp.

Kapsch, Robert J.  2000.  “Benjamin Wright and the Design and Construction of the Monocacy Aqueduct” [Va.; C&O Canal].  In Canal History and Technology Proceedings 19: 181-222.  Easton, Pa.: Canal History and Technology Press.

Kemp, Emory L., and Beverly B. Fluty.  1999.  The Wheeling Suspension Bridge: A Pictorial History [W.Va.; landmark structure completed 1859].  Charleston, W.Va.: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company.  82 pp.

Kemp-Rye, Mark.  1999.  “Saved-Again!: Restoring the Barrackville Covered Bridge” [built 1853].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Fall): 56-61.

Laughlin, Robert W. M., and Melissa C. Jurgensen.  2007.  Kentucky’s Covered Bridges [photo retrospective; over 700 once existed, 13 remain; photos of 130 discovered].  Images of America.  Charleston, S.C.:Arcadia.  128 pp.

Martin, Louis C.  2006.  “The Pine Bank Bridge and its Changing Meaning through the Years” [1871 covered bridge, Greene Co., Pa.].  Western Pennsylvania History 89, no 2 (Summer): 26-33.

McCleary, Ann E.  2000.  “Forging a Regional Identity: Development of Rural Vernacular Architecture in the Central Shenandoah Valley, 1790-1850.”  In After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900, eds. K. Koons and W. Hofstra, 92-110. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

McGehee, Margaret.  1998.  “A Castle in the Wilderness: Rugby Colony, Tennessee, 1880-1887.”  Journal of East Tennessee History 70: 62-89.

Melling, Carol.  2008.  Crossings: Bridge Building in West Virginia [history].  With an introduction by Governor Joe Manchin.  Edited by Terry Lively and Randall Nichols.  Photography by Eric Steele and David Bowen.  Louisville, Ky.: Four-Colour Imports. 124 pp.

Michael, Edwin Daryl.  2005.  “Life in the Levi Shinn House” [National Register log structure; built 1778, Shinnston, W.Va.].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 31, no. 3 (Fall): 58-65.

Milbauer, John A.  1996/97.  “Pennsylvania Extended in the Cherokee Country: A Study of Log Architecture” [transplanted to Oklahoma].  Pennsylvania Folklife 46 (Winter): 92-101.

Miller, Larry L.  2001.  Tennessee Place-Names [1900 entries].  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.  248 pp.

Milnes, Gerald.  1998.  “The Barns of Pendleton County.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Spring): 50-55.

Morningstar, William.  2000.  “Kentucky Phantoms: A Road Trip” [10 photos of dilapidated buildings, from an exhibition].  Appalachian Heritage 28 (Winter): 8-12.

Moyer, Teresa S., and Paul A. Shackel.  2008.  The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: A Devil, Two Rivers, and a Dream.  American Association for State and Local History book series.  Lanham, Md.: Altamira Press.  235 pp.    Harpers Ferry became a National Monument in 1944, and a National Historical Park in 1963.

Muller, Edward K., Ronald C. Carlisle, et al.  1994.  Westmoreland  County, Pennsylvania:  An Inventory of Historic Engineering  and Industrial Sites.  Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record.  America's Industrial Heritage Project.  Washington, D.C.: GPO.  399 pp.

Murray-Wooley, Carolyn.  2008.  Early Stone Houses of Kentucky.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  227 pp.    Frontier homes and families; photos.

Noblitt, Philip T.  1996.  A Mansion in the Mountains: The Story of Moses & Bertha Cone & Their Blowing Rock Manor.  Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers, Inc.  207 pp.

Patteson, Stuart.  2004.  “A Brave New Deal World: The Cumberland Homesteads” [1930s experimental resettlement subsistence community, Crossville, Tenn.].  In Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, eds. M. Birdwell and W. Dickinson, 196-210.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Phillips, Laura A. W., and Deborah Thompson.  1998.  Transylvania: The Architectural History of a Mountain County [N.C.].  Raleigh, N.C.: Transylvania County Joint Historic Preservation Commission in association with Marblehead Publishing.  336 pp.

Plowden, Kate.  2001.  “Karl Bittner’s Sculptural Work at Biltmore” [Asheville; 1890s].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 343-361.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.

Prince, Jeanie.  2002.  “Back to the Future: Huntington’s Heritage Farm Museum.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Summer): 44-49.

Raitz, Karl, ed.; George F. Thompson, project director and director of photography; cartography by Gyula Pauer.  1996.  The National Road.  [Cumberland Road]  The Road and American Culture, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.  489 pp.

Raitz, Karl, ed.; George F. Thompson, project director and director of photography; cartography by Gyula Pauer.  1996.  A Guide to the National Road.  [Cumberland Road]  The Road and American Culture, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Ralston, Jeannie.  1996.  "Bark Grinders and Fly Minders Tell a Tale of Appalachia."  [Museum of Appalachia, Norris, Tenn.]  Smithsonian 26 (February): 44-50, 52-53.

Richardson, Jerry.  1999.  “Renovation: From Linoleum to Congoleum: A Memoir” [Lynch, Ky.; privatized coal company-town houses].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 27-29.

Ridner, Judith.  2000.  “Status, Culture, and the Structural World in the Valley of Pennsylvania” [Carlisle, Pa.].  In After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900, eds. K. Koons and W. Hofstra, 77-91. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Roberts, Katherine.  2004.  “Ritchie County Cellar Houses” [19th century, hand-cut stone foundations, built into hillsides, used for cold food-storage].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Fall): 40-45.

Roberts, Kathy.  2005. “Tygart Valley Homestead: New Deal Communities in Randolph County” [198 houses built; 1930s]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 31, no. 2 (Summer): 10-19, 21.  Sidebar: “The Homestead Movement in West Virginia,” by Gordon Simmons, 18-19.

Robertson, Blanche R.  1997.  “The Waterpowered Mills of Reems Creek” [profiles ten mills].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 82-96.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Rybczynski, Witold.  1999.  A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century [biography; landscape architect of the Biltmore Estate, Asheville, N.C.].  New York: Scribner.  480 pp.

Shackel, Paul A.  2000.  Archaeology and Created Memory: Public History in a National Park [Harpers Ferry, W.Va.].  Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology series.  New York: Plenum.  191 pp.

Shaluta, Steve, Jr.  2004.  Covered Bridges in West Virginia [color photographs of 17 remaining bridges].  Charleston, W.Va.: Quarrier Press.  Unpaged.

Sims, Elizabeth.  2008.  “Appalachia As a Playground for the Privileged.”  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 24, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 28-33.  Background on the region’s resorts including W.Va.’s Greenbrier and N.C.’s Biltmore.

Spence, Joe E., and George R. Kiley, eds.  1997.  Landmarks of Loudon County: Its History through Architecture  [Tenn.].   Gloucester Point, Va.: Hallmark Publishing Co.  176 pp.

Stewart, Doug.  1997.  “Saving American Steel” [preserving silent mills as museums].  Smithsonian 28 (August): 84-93.

Stipes, R. Jay, and Karen B. Stipes.  2000.  “Witness Trees of the New River Region in Virginia” [centuries-old landmark trees].  In Proceedings, New River Symposium, April 15-16, 1999, Boone, North Carolina, 42-49.  Glen Jean, W.Va.: National Park Service.

Tate, Bryan.  2002.  “Appalachian Pioneers and Log Houses” [Sullivan Co., Tenn.]. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 48 (June): 1-18.

Tate, Bryan.  2002.  “Sullivan County Log Homes” [East Tenn.; 1779-1840 settlement patterns; house types: single-pen, double-pen, saddlebag, dogtrot, and I-houses].  Material Culture 34, no. 2: 41-53.

Terrell, Bob.  1997.  Historic Asheville [N.C.; “200 years of history”].  Alexander, N.C.: WorldComm.  256 pp.

Turnquist, Gary M.  2000.  “Historic Preservation in a New River Valley Community: Grassy Creek, North Carolina” [added to National Register of Historic Places, 1976].  In Proceedings, New River Symposium, April 15-16, 1999, Boone, North Carolina, 78-86.  Glen Jean, W.Va.: National Park Service.

Turpen, James.  2002.  “Tallulah Falls Township according to Local Historian James Turpen” [Ga.].  Interview by student Samantha Tyler.  Foxfire Magazine 36 (Fall/Winter): 126-139.

Vivian, Daniel J.  2001.  “Public Architecture, Civic Aspirations and the Price of ‘Progress’: A History of the Buncombe County Courthouse.”  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 154-177.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.

Watkins, Charles Alan, and Elizabeth Lawson.  1999.  “Invershiel: A New Old World in the Blue Ridge Mountains” [Linville, N.C.; 1960s Scottish-motif planned village].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 3-8.

Wesolowsky, Tony.  1996.  “A Jewel in the Crown of Old King Coal: Eckley Miners' Village.”  [recreated anthracite community; Luzerne County, Pa.]  Pennsylvania Heritage 22 (Winter): 30-37.

West, Carroll Van.  1995.  Tennessee’s Historic Landscapes:  A Traveler’s Guide.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.  503 pp.

West, Carroll Van.  2001.  Tennessee’s New Deal Landscape: A Guidebook [250 historic sites].  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.  281 pp.

White, Warren H.  2003.  Covered Bridges in the Southeastern United States: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog.  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.  214 pp.

Wilhelm, Hubert.  2008.  “The Pennsylvania-Dutch Barn in Southeastern Ohio.”  Material Culture 39, no. 1: 51-60.    Late-18th century to the mid-19th century transitional region.

Williams, Michael Ann.  2004 [1991].  Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina.  Reprint.  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.  Originally published: Athens: University of Georgia Press.  190 pp.

Wood, Miriam, and David Simmons.  2007.  Covered Bridges: Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia.  Photographs by Bill Miller.  Wooster, Ohio: Wooster Book Company.  289 pp.

Woodside, Jane Harris.  1996.  "Looking for Main Street America."  [West Virginia University's involvement in documenting construction of the Cumberland Road].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 13 (Spring): 9-14.

Zaunders, Bo.  2004.  The Great Bridge-Building Contest [children’s literature; 1850 (West) Virginia; Lemuel Chenoweth’s renowned covered bridge in Philippi].  Illustrated by Roxie Munro.  New York: Harry N. Abrams.  32 pp.

Zuchowski, Dave.  1999.  “The House with No Square Corners” [Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Kentuck Knob”; Laurel Highlands, Pa.].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 14-17.