LIN 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Appalachian Regional Commission, Appalachian Mountains
27 Aug 2018
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Appalachia is the area of the country where you find the appalachian mountains. It is said that the spanish explorer, hernando de soto, gave the name on an expedition in 1539-40. The name (apalachen) did not appear on a map until 1562. In the late 1700s, the name spread to refer to the entire mountain chain after the. 1767: daniel boone reached salt spring, ky. 1790: kentucky gets crowded, weird land boundaries lead to feuds among neighbors. 1810: eastern kentucky already known as the poor man"s country . Many people were landless; but there were some backcountry elite . Civil war: kentucky right in the middle; both presidents were from kentucky. 1870: eastern companies set their eyes on appalachia for hardwood and coal, convincing farmers to let them mine their land for very small amounts of money. Around 1900: the population was scattered across mountains; coal industry needed towns, infrastructure (towns named for coal company execs)
