For 40 years starting in the 1850’s a railroad was built across the most rugged and remote parts of Appalachia, western North Carolina. This railroad was mostly completed as planned, using convict labor, at not only a great monetary cost but also at the cost of those convicts’ lives.
Today we tell the story of the Western North Carolina Railroad and the men who built it.
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Tuckaseegee River photo by Matthew T. Bradley – originally posted to Flickr as looking up the Tuckasegee, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10774957
