Online Exhibit: Dick's Creek: Arrival at Dillsboro


Horace Kephart began his life in among the Smoky Mountains with his summer of 1904 arrival at Dillsboro, North Carolina. His diary index mentions that he could have obtained his supplies at Dillsboro, a commentary on this modern railroad town. While his personal album contains many photographs of people and places that Kephart visited, Dillsboro is curiously absent from the album. This postcard of the Jarrett Springs Hotel, now known as the Jarrett House, and photograph of Dillsboro are from the Regional Photograph Collection at Hunter Library Special Collections and show what the town was like around the time Kephart first arrived.

Horace Kephart: Revealing an Enigma is presented by Hunter Library Special and Digital Collections and the Mountain Heritage Center. This project was supported in whole or in part by NC ECHO and the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the federal Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

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