Idol’s Dam and Power Plant on the Yadkin River
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Courtesy of the Forsyth County Public Library Photograph Collection.
- Date created
- c. 1898
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- This photograph copyright ©2008. Terms of use
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- North Carolina in the early 20th century: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the first decades of the twentieth century (1900–1929). Topics include changes in technology and transportation, Progressive Era reforms, World War I, women's suffrage, Jim Crow and African American life, the cultural changes of the 1920s, labor and labor unrest, and the Gastonia stirke of 1929. (Page 1.3)
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