Travel Western North Carolina
Taking the Train: Clyde
Haywood County
Altitude: 2,550 feet
Population: 344
"A prosperous and growing incorporated village located nearly in the center of a rich plateau. Clyde has several hardwood lumber mills and flouring mills, a postoffice from which a rural mail route runs to Crabtree, and general business houses. From here the Railway runs directly East through the valley of the Pigeon River, which it crosses just before reaching Canton, N.C. "
The 1916 Pictorial Story of Haywood County reported that,
"At present Clyde has three hundred inhabitants, three churches, one high school, nine stores, one bank, all of which seem to be prospering. There are eight hotels and boarding houses to take care of the transient, and summer guests and new buildings going up attest the prosperity of Clyde."
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Return to the Southern Railway Map for the 1910s
Text excerpted from 1912 travel guide, The Western North Carolina Section at a Glance. Issued by the Passenger Traffic Department, Southern Railway, Premier Carrier of the South, Washington, D.C., 1912.
Sources & Readings
- Allen, W.C. (William Cicero). The Annals of Haywood County, North Carolina: Historical, Sociological, Biographical, and Genealogical. [S.l.: S.n.], 1935.
- Carolina Mountaineer; sponsored by the Haywood county Historical Society. The 1916 Pictorial Story of Haywood County: Reprint of a Special Industrial and Resort Edition of the Carolina Mountaineer. [S.l.: s.n.: 196?].
- Farlow, Betsy, Dan Lane, and Duane Oliver. Haywood Homes and History. Hazelwood, N.C.: Oliver Scriptorium, 1993 (Waynesville, N.C.: D. Mills, Inc.).
- Haywood County Heritage Book Committee, ed. Haywood County Heritage, North Carolina, 1994. Waynesville, N.C.: Published by the Haywood County Genealogical Society, in cooperation with Walsworth Publishing Co., 1994.
- Jarrett, Dana L, ed. A Pictorial History of Haywood County. Asheville, N.C. Asheville Citizen-Times Pub. of North Carolina, 1994.